ABSTRACT
This handbook, representing the collaboration of 36 scholars, provides a multi-faceted exploration of Chinese business and management.
The volume represents an ‘inside-out’ perspective, offering local knowledge and experience, in conjunction with an ‘outside-in’ approach, presenting measured and sensitive observations from an outsider’s perspective. The handbook’s approach is organised around five key themes:
- Cultural and institutional contexts for business in China
- Management, including digital marketing and entrepreneurship
- Work and employment, covering gender and trade unions in the workplace
- Human resource management and human resource development in Chinese businesses, including multinational corporations in the UK
- Business and economic overviews, revealing the impact of guanxi relations and networks on Chinese business and management
Revealing major recent developments in Chinese business and management alongside an appreciation of the unique historical, institutional, and cultural context of Chinese business and management, this book is a must-read for scholars, students, and educators of Chinese business and theory, and business in Asia.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|12 pages
Introduction
part 2|62 pages
Cultural and Institutional Contexts
chapter 4|19 pages
From ‘Iron-Rice-Bowl’ to Labour Market
part 3|91 pages
Management
part 4|37 pages
Work and Employment
chapter 9|16 pages
Trade Unions in China
chapter 10|19 pages
Gender and ‘Achieving Styles’ in Chinese Workplace
part 5|103 pages
Human Resource Management and Development
chapter 15|21 pages
New Issues of Human Resource Management in China
part 6|62 pages
Business and Economic Overviews
part 7|10 pages
Conclusions