The Dirty Business War Of Entrepreneurs

In the past half a month, two dirty commercial wars broke out between the two leading enterprises in China's two major industries.

First in late October, dairy industry giant Erie announced. Mengniu Group Some people use network media to maliciously damage the business reputation and reputation of Yili Group. Mengniu admits it is true. At the same time, it argues that from 2003 to 2004, the Erie group had made and disseminated negative information about Mengniu products by similar means.

Ten days later, Qihoo 360 and Tencent, the two giants of the Internet industry, started their war. Both sides at the expense of consumers' rights and interests, frequently launched new software, boycotted the normal operation and update of each other's software, accusing each other of violating the privacy of computer users. The climax of the war was the Tencent's compulsion to stop running QQ software on computers equipped with 360 software. In the process of public bickering and hands-on, the act of violating user privacy has been exposed.

Among the companies involved in these commercial scandals, the Yili Group is a state-owned enterprise. Mengniu, Tencent and Qihoo 360 are all new private enterprises. The industry and even the society had hoped for them, but their behaviour was disappointing.

The theme of China's past 30 years is marketization, and this process has not yet been completed.

Marketization needs not only the establishment of market system, but also the main body of market activities: enterprises. Strictly speaking, qualified market participants can only be private enterprises. Over the past 30 years, private enterprises are indeed growing rapidly and expanding, and have become the main players in economic activities. To a large extent, they shape the social form and people's way of life.

However, the expansion of the number and scale of private enterprises does not seem to be accompanied by a significant improvement in the quality of enterprises. On the contrary, from the black brick kiln incident to the melamine incident, from the abnormal death of Foxconn employees to Baidu's rankings of search rankings, from the resettlement of Qihoo 360 and Jinshan antivirus to the sexual harassment scandal of mountain training institutions, from the real estate enterprises' attack on the demolition households to the latest four enterprises, the public saw: under the eye-catching scandals, there are widespread corporate anomie and distortion problems.

There is no doubt that the absence of law and the absence of supervision are the important reasons for the anomie of corporate behavior.

For a long time, these enterprises adopted gray and black competition techniques, and the law often remained silent, and supervision was also inadequate. As a result, gray and black practices became the habits of some enterprises. This time, the judicial and regulatory departments should take up their responsibilities, severely punish the acts that infringe on the rights and interests of consumers, and regulate the order of competition among enterprises.

But experience tells people that this is too much hope and unrealistic. In fact, in China, the rule of law and the regulatory system itself still need to be constructed and improved. Moreover, with the experience of the evolution of other countries' system, private entrepreneurs should be the most important construction subjects.

In other words, in the present China, the largest and most powerful group of entrepreneurs in the emerging elite group has to undertake more difficult tasks than entrepreneurs in the market and country with a sound rule of law system: they can not only use the system and participate in the structural system; they should not only construct the market order that they are directly involved in, but also participate in the construction of the rule of law order from the perspective of the market and sometimes from the social and political point of view. {page_break}

This seems to be a heavy burden, but if an entrepreneur wants to enjoy a sound operation environment, he must assume the responsibility of the system builder. This is the deepest and most important social responsibility that entrepreneurs should bear in the social responsibility of entrepreneurs that people often talk about.

In some ways, quite a few. Entrepreneur Indeed, such a responsibility has been borne. These include entrepreneurs who conscientious or refuse to cooperate with others. Those entrepreneurs who dare to break through unreasonable regulations and resist improper government intervention are entrepreneurs who actively organize business autonomy and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of enterprises. It is their ethical consciousness and law-abiding management that maintain the most basic business order and even social order.

But obviously, there are also many enterprises, such as those involved in this scandal, who go against the right path. They gave up their responsibilities for consumers, market order, not to mention good governance order.

These enterprises lack the minimum respect for consumers, and do nothing to compete with their rivals. Such entrepreneurs often use social disorder and laws to comfort themselves and even indulge themselves. They are the products of this era's moral environment, which in turn drives the society to run towards the jungle and break through the bottom line of ethics and law.

Fortunately, even in less robust markets, there is a warrant. market order The trend towards self improvement, such as consumers voting with feet, and competitors coming in. This mechanism is playing a role in China and has partly forced entrepreneurs who lack the bottom line to consider stepping out of the jungle.

What is important is whether entrepreneurs, especially the leaders of various industries and regions, have learned the correct lesson from successive corporate scandals. If they can understand something, they may be able to form the consciousness of entrepreneurs' ethics and find their own way of rebirth.