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.

Table of Contents:
Part 1: Introduction 1. Introducing Chinese Business and Management Part 2: Cultural and Institutional Contexts 2. Themes in Ancient Chinese Management 3. Cultural Foundations of Economic Behaviour in China: The Confucian Legacy 4. From ‘Iron-Rice-Bowl’ to Labour Market: The Development of Labour Markets in China after Mao Part 3: Management 5. Digital Marketing in China 6. Entrepreneurship in China 7. The Changing Faces of Leadership in Contemporary Chinese Organizations 8. Management Education in China Part 4: Work and Employment 9. Trade Unions in China: The Dynamics of Labour Relations and State-ancillary Unionism in Transition 10. Gender and ‘Achieving Styles’ in Chinese workplace: Social Roles and Institutional Perspectives Part 5: Human Resource Management and Development 11. Human Resources and Employee Relations in China 12. Human Resource Management & Innovation in China 13. Human Resource Development in China: The Role of Vocational Education Ying Zhu and Min Min 14. Human Resource Management in Chinese Multinational Enterprises 15. New Issues of Human Resource Management in China: Experiences and Optimization Proposal for Overseas Talent Management 16. Chinese Multinational Corporations in the UK: Towards a Research Agenda Part 6: Business and Economic Overviews 17. Guanxi and Networking: China’s Hidden Business Matrix 18. Can China’s Market Leninism Sustain Organizational Competitiveness at Global Standards of Efficiency and Effectiveness? 19. Foreign Corporate R&D In China: A Strategic Perspective Part 7: Conclusions 20. The Complex Futures of Chinese Business and Management

About the Author :
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.