1st Edition
Routledge Handbook of Chinese Business and Management
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: 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.
