1st Edition

Routledge Handbook of Chinese Business and Management

Edited By Jane Nolan, Zhao Shuming, Ken Kamoche Copyright 2024
414 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

414 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

414 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

Part 1: Introduction

1. Introducing Chinese Business and Management

Jane Nolan, Ken Kamoche, and Shuming Zhao

Part 2: Cultural and Institutional Contexts

2. Themes in Ancient Chinese Management

William H. Starbuck and Violina Rindova

3. Cultural Foundations of Economic Behaviour in China: The Confucian Legacy

Carsten Herrmann-Pillath

4. From ‘Iron-Rice-Bowl’ to Labour Market: The Development of Labour Markets in China After Mao

Pieter Bottelier

Part 3: Management

5. Digital Marketing in China

Teck-Yong Eng and Sio-Hong Tih

6. Entrepreneurship in China

Peihua Fan and Tingting Lu

7. The Changing Faces of Leadership in Contemporary Chinese Organizations

Jean Lee and An-Chih Andrew Wang

8. Management Education in China

Keith Goodall and Daniel Agerbech Petersen

Part 4: Work and Employment

9. Trade Unions in China: The Dynamics of Labour Relations and State-ancillary Unionism in Transition

William Brown and Xuebing Cao

10. Gender and ‘Achieving Styles’ in Chinese Workplace: A Social Role and Institutional Perspective

Yixuan Zhao and Yunfei Xu

Part 5: Human Resource Management and Development

11. Human Resources and Employee Relations in China

Arup Varma and Biyun Hu

12. Human Resource Management and Innovation in China

Connie Zheng

13. Human Resource Development in China: The Role of Vocational Education

Ying Zhu and Min Min

14. Human Resource Management in Chinese Multinational Enterprises

David Fan, Cherrie Jiuhua Zhu, and Mingqiong Mike Zhang

15. New Issues of Human Resource Management in China: Experiences and Optimization Proposal for Overseas Talent Management

Shuming Zhao and Juan Du

16. Chinese Multinational Corporations in the UK: Towards a Research Agenda

Amani Shajera, Ken Kamoche, and Yanan Feng

Part 6: Business and Economic Overviews

17. Guanxi and Networking: China’s Hidden Business Matrix

Markus Taube and Sven Horak

18. Can China’s Market Leninism Sustain Organizational Competitiveness at Global Standards of Efficiency and Effectiveness?

Gordon Redding

19. Foreign Corporate R&D In China: A Strategic Perspective

Denis Simon and Cong Cao

Part 7: Conclusions

20. The Complex Futures of Chinese Business and Management

Shuming Zhao, Jane Nolan, Danxia Wei, and Ken Kamoche

Biography

Jane Nolan is Associate Professor of Organization Studies and HRM at the Nottingham University Business School, University of Nottingham, UK.

Shuming Zhao is Nanjing University Senior Professor, Honorary Dean of the School of Business, and Dean of Xingzhi College at Nanjing University, China.

Ken Kamoche is Professor of HRM and Organization Studies and Director of the Africa Research Group at the Nottingham University Business School, University of Nottingham, UK.