1st Edition

Inside the Changing Business of China Organizational Evolution, Culture, Leadership and Innovation

Edited By Chris Rowley, Ingyu Oh Copyright 2021
108 Pages
by Routledge

108 Pages
by Routledge

108 Pages
by Routledge

The rapid speed and size of China’s economic expansion growth is well known. Several causes and reasons are commonly given for this performance, now joined by some commentary questioning how sustainable this is in the light of slowing growth rates and the need for different types and forms of growth – knowledge/innovative, services, etc – as well as demographic trends within the global context of... Read more

1. Introduction: The Changing Shapes of Business in China: Organizational, Cultural, Leadership and Innovation

Chris Rowley and Ingyu Oh

2. Folk tales and organizational change: an integrative model for Chinese management

Ronald Busse

3. Does Confucian management exist in Chinese companies? An examination of the intersection between cultural influence and business practice in China

Andrew Atherton

4. An examination of three-way interactions of paternalistic leadership in China

Wai Kwan Lau, Zhen Li and John Okpara

5. Interpersonal feelings and knowledge seeking in China

Michael Jijin Zhang

6. Effects of organizational innovation and technological innovation capabilities on firm performance: evidence from firms in China’s Pearl River Delta

Quan Chen, Chun-Hsien Wang and Shi-Zheng Huang

Biography

Chris Rowley is Visiting Fellow at Kellogg College, University of Oxford, UK, and is Professor Emeritus at Cass Business School, City, University of London, UK. He has over 30 years' experience in university systems in the UK, Europe and Asia and has won several international grants. He is the editor of three journals, including Asia Pacific Business Review, and has published over 700 articles, books, chapters, and practitioner pieces. He regularly provides interviews, expert comments and opinion pieces to the international media, including news services, TV, radio and practitioner outlets.

Ingyu Oh is Professor of International Business at Kansai Gaidai University, Japan. He has spent most of his academic career teaching and researching Japanese, South Korean and Taiwanese corporations, with an emphasis on leadership, governance, innovation and organizational evolution. He is currently the President of the World Association for Hallyu Studies.