This thesis attempts to do an empirical research of workers’ responses to the status deprivation in the process of State-owned Enterprises’ institutional transformations, especially the possibility of workers’ collective action, and analyzes the relationship between workers’ action choices and institutional environment, material environment, resource as well as goal in temporal under the hypothesis of workers as context bounded rationality agents. Formal institution and informal institution are the main institutional factors of shaping the workers’ action choices and the logic of action choicesthe logic of conforming to institution and the logic of subsistence.Main conclusions of the research are: there is no open and interests organized collective action under the condition of status deprivation in the process of institution transformation, i.e. un-collective action. Collective inaction is not the main politics of state-owned enterprises. Main response of action is obedience, exit, and individual voice.
