专业化管理是现代组织和市场经济的重要特征之一。三十多年改革开放，中国努力建设以现代企业为主体的市场经济，创造了经济奇迹，企业的专业化管理也有一定程度的发展。然而中国是关系社会，传统的关系理念与专业主义有本质上区别。那么在这关系社会中改革创新，中国企业是如何发展专业化管理的？问题重要，现有文献却未能系统考察。为回答该问题，首先，本项目基于“传统-现代”和中国转型的背景，理论上定位和定义专业化管理和关系管理，并探究如何避免西方现已发生的专业化管理的道德问题；其次，采用纵向案例研究，探讨中国企业专业化管理的历史进程；第三，运用大规模问卷调查，探讨中国企业专业化发展的宏观、中观和微观层次前因结果及其机制；最后，选择一个行业和一家企业，运用现场实验方法，进行专业化管理的变革实践。运用多层次多方法的本土研究混合设计，本项目不仅发展中国企业专业化管理理论，而且为世界特别是其他转型国家和地区提供理论指导。

Professionalization and professionalism are key characteristics of modern organizations and market economies. For more than 30 years of opening to the world and economic reform, China has created economic miracles in the world by building a market economy with modern business enterprises as major players. Accordingly, professionalization in Chinese companies has made significant progress. However, as a guanxi society relying heavily on personal relationships, guanxism has some fundamental differences from professionalism. The question we ask is, during enterprise reform and innovation and operating in a guanxi oriented society, to what extent and in what ways has professionalism developed as Chinese organizations experience the dynamic coexistence, interaction, or even integration of traditional (guanxi) principles and modern management principles? This is a very important question but has not been systematically answered in existing literatures of guanxi and professionalism. To explore this question, in the current proposal we first seek to conceptually differentiate and connect guanix-based management and professional management and explore how to prevent potential moral slippery of professionalism evidenced in Western societies. Second, we will trace the historical process of professionalization in Chinese companies by conducting longitudinal case studies. Third, we will conduct large scale survey research to identify and study antecedents, consequences, and processes of professional development at the macro, meso, and micro levels. Lastly, we will select a particular occupation and a company to observe professionalization practices by using field experimental methods. By adopting a multi-level and multi-method mixed design our indigenous research on Chinese management will make theoretical contributions not only to the development of Chinese professional management but also provide guidance to professional management in the world, especially in other transforming economies.