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.

part 1|12 pages

Introduction

part 2|62 pages

Cultural and Institutional Contexts

chapter 3|22 pages

Cultural Foundations of Economic Behaviour in China

The Confucian Legacy

chapter 4|19 pages

From ‘Iron-Rice-Bowl’ to Labour Market

The Development of Labour Markets in China After Mao

part 4|37 pages

Work and Employment

chapter 9|16 pages

Trade Unions in China

The Dynamics of Labour Relations and State-ancillary Unionism in Transition

chapter 10|19 pages

Gender and ‘Achieving Styles’ in Chinese Workplace

A Social Role and Institutional Perspective

part 5|103 pages

Human Resource Management and Development

chapter 13|14 pages

Human Resource Development in China

The Role of Vocational Education

chapter 15|21 pages

New Issues of Human Resource Management in China

Experiences and Optimization Proposal for Overseas Talent Management

chapter 16|15 pages

Chinese Multinational Corporations in the UK

Towards a Research Agenda

part 6|62 pages

Business and Economic Overviews

chapter 17|15 pages

Guanxi and Networking

China's Hidden Business Matrix

chapter 19|25 pages

Foreign Corporate R&D in China

A Strategic Perspective

part 7|10 pages

Conclusions