Danwei was a Chinese work-unit institution connecting employment, welfare, political administration, and everyday opportunity. Its concentrated jurisdiction helps explain the stakes of workplace communication, while reform-era changes require historical precision. Walder theorized organized dependence within this system; he did not originate the institution.
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- CategoryGovernance Institutions & Procedures
- DomainOrganization & Structure
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Editorial orientation · Family
Model
In this series, Model names the editorial family primarily used to understand and explain communication: theories, frameworks, effects, traditions, principles and other conceptual resources. It is an umbrella for a route into the field, not a claim that every included object is a predictive model.
Editorial orientation · Category
Governance Institutions & Procedures
Organizes authority, representation, participation, deliberation, collective decision or institutional resolution of conflict. Its contribution concerns who may act, speak, decide or challenge, and under what arrangements.