The Dilemma Of Chinese State-owned Enterprises Social Responsibility

In the reality, Chinese state-owned enterprises are often lost or in crisis. They bear the responsibility of government, but ignore the social responsibility that relating to the public interest. While they are regarded as an institution, they are used by government for involvement and intervention in the economy. From the nature, Chinese state-owned enterprises are socialist enterprise, which determines they have dual property about public welfare and profitability. And then the social responsibility of state-owned enterprises is unique.With the continuous deepening of the reform of the economic system, the requirement of the state-owned enterprises social responsibility is more and more urgent. This article is based on public choice analytical framework to analyze the plight of Chinese state-owned enterprises social responsibility. Under public choice perspective, corporate social responsibility can be seen as public goods. The state-owned corporate social responsibility is a public selection process, which follow the trading mechanism of public choice. State-owned enterprises have path dependence and political relevance, which making state-owned enterprises often showing a semi-main characteristics in the public selection process and making the result of the imbalance of power between the main body of the public choice.Due to the impact of the trading mechanism in the public selection process, transaction costs play an important role in the process of state-owned enterprises to bear the social responsibility. This article try to explain the factors that affect the social responsibility of state-owned enterprises from four levels, including the level of institutional, the level of the political system, the level of civil society and the level of social construction. By the development of democracy and online media technology, social participation in public choice more and more diverse. With social organizations appearing, the structure of social governance has changed, which affect the game pattern between the main bodies in the public choice and even affect the government decision-making process. However, our existing institutional environment determines the strong position of the government in the public choice of social responsibility of state-owned enterprises. As opposed to, the public force is still too weak, which can’t change the results of the public choice. State-owned enterprises still face difficulties.Therefore, the public choice analytical framework only provides a new perspective on the social responsibility of state-owned enterprises, which can’t solve the complex problems. To solve this problem, it still needs to combine with all the various stakeholders of state-owned enterprises. Under the premise of establishing reasonable and effective institutional arrangements, we should(1) promote the reform of the administrative system to play the leading role of government;(2)optimize the social governance structure to play the strength of social organization;(3)strengthen the enterprise culture construction to achieve informal institutional constraints.