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This book includes research presented at the Global Chinese Management Studies Conferences held in Singapore between 2011 and 2014. It covers managerial themes from China that are associated with eco-labels, institutional changes in the context of governance, fusion accounting information, consumers on insuring, corporate social responsibility, financial warning systems, new product development, entrepreneurship, polycentric patterns and even destructive leadership. The papers were written by leading academics from Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore whose perspectives represent a departure from conventional managerial practices. Diversity of Managerial Perspectives from Inside China is essential reading for all researchers interested in the development and significance of management-related topics in the Chinese market.

InShaken Authority, Christian P. Sorace examines the political mechanisms at work in the aftermath of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake and the broader ideological energies that drove them. Sorace takes Communist Party ideas and discourse as central to how that organization formulates policies, defines legitimacy, and exerts its power. Sorace argues that the Communist Party has never abandoned its conviction that discourse can shape the world and the people who inhabit it. Sorace also demonstrates how the Communist Party's planning apparatus continues to play a crucial role in engineering China's economy and market construction, especially in the countryside. Sorace takes a distinctive and original interpretive approach to understanding Chinese politics, andShaken Authoritydemonstrates how Communist Party discourse and ideology influenced the official decisions and responses to the Sichuan earthquake. Sorace provides a clear view of the lived outcomes of Communist Party plans, rationalities, and discourses in the earthquake zone. The three case studies he presents each demonstrate a different type of reconstruction and model of development: urban-rural integration, tourism, and ecological civilization. Sorace's work emphasizes the need for a grounded literacy in the political concepts, discourses, and vocabularies of the Communist Party itself. To dismiss China's official discourse as \"empty propaganda,\" Sorace argues, makes China and Chinese realities harder to understand, not easier.

This book provides essential information on emergency management. It is composed of two parts, addressing the basic theory and related methods of emergency management, including risk management, coordination management, crisis management and disaster management. By putting the emphasis on interdisciplinary, systematic perspectives and building a bridge between basic knowledge and further research, it is well suited as an emergency management textbook and offers a valuable guide to prepare readers for their future emergency management careers.

During the past 30 years, China has undergone extensive economic reform, replacing the government’s administration of enterprises with increasing levels of market-oriented enterprise autonomy. At the heart of the reform are changes in the employment relationship, where state control has been superceded by market relationships. These reforms have had far-reaching implications for many aspects of everyday life in Chinese society. This book appraises the impact of the economic reforms on the employment relationship and, in turn, examines the effects on individual workers and their families, including salaries, working conditions and satisfaction, job security and disparities based on location, gender, age, skill, position and migrant status. In particular, it focuses on how changes in the employment relationship have affected the livelihood strategies of households. It explores the changing human resource management practices and employment relations in different types of enterprises: including State-Owned Enterprises, Foreign-Owned Enterprises and Domestic Private Enterprises; throughout different industries, focusing especially on textiles, clothing and footwear and the electronics industry; and in different regions and cities within China (Beijing, Haerbin, Lanzhou, Hangzhou, Wuhan and Kunming). Overall, this book provides a detailed account of the everyday implications of economic reform for individuals and families in China. 1. Introduction 2. Economic reform and its industrial and social impact 3. Management, workers and conditions of employment 4. Worker representation and emerging roles for trade unions 5. Enterprise performance and intangible management 6. Market-oriented economic reform and the quality of working life 7. Work, households and livelihoods 8. Economic reform and its impact on management, enterprises and workers \"It covers an interesting range of topics within and outside the realm of economics as such, such the impact on managers and workers, as well as on human resource management and trade unions, amongst others.]...[The work is clearly-written, will have somewhat wider readership on campus and is one might say appropriate for both an undergraduate and postgraduate audience, even possibly of some potential appeal to MBA students.\" – Malcolm Warner, Asia Pacific Business Review, 2010 \"This book is a welcome addition to the macro-economic studies of China’s 30 years of economic reform. It sets out to illustrate how economic reform has driven changes in management systems and employment relations and how such changes have influenced the performance of enterprises, worker satisfaction and workers’ households and livelihoods. The detailed survey data and statistical analysis mean the book achieves this goal in great detail... As it stands, the work will largely be of interest to comparative scholars of human resource management and employment relations and to comparative economists interested in a closer appraisal of China’s market-oriented economic reforms.\" - Jason Young, Victoria University of Wellington; New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, 13.1 (June 2011) Ying Zhu is Associate Professor in the Department of Management and Marketing, University of Melbourne, Australia. He is the co-editor of Trade Unions in Asia ; Unemployment in Asia ; and Management in Transitional Economies: From the Berlin Wall to the Great Wall of China (both published by Routledge). Michael Webber is Professorial Fellow in the School of Resource Management and Geography, University of Melbourne, Australia. He is the co-editor of China’s transition to a global economy and co-author of Global Restructuring: the Australian Experience . John Benson is Professor and Head of the School of Management at the University of South Australia. His most recent publications include (as co-editor) Unemployment in Asia ; Asian Business: Women and Management ; and Trade Unions in Asia (both published by Routledge).

This study explores the question as to whether the way in which Chinese management handles conflict is fundamentally different from elsewhere or much the same. It does so by examining in detail an international joint venture construction project, where managers rooted in contrasting business systems were brought together, and by showing how the project progressed over time, how various conflict situations arose, and how they were handled. In addition, the book provides an in-depth account of the inner workings of the Chinese business world, touching on issues such as: differing international standards and management procedures the peculiarities of Chinese red tape paternalism and nepotism the limits on contract in contemporary China the involvement of local officials. Of interest to scholars and managers alike, this study benefits from the unparalleled access the author secured to all the parties involved. Working alongside managers as a participant observer, Jie Tang uses the fine detail of ethnography to convey a vivid impression of the lives of managers in China today and the forces with which they have to contend.

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the similarities and differences of contemporary human resource management systems, processes and practices in the two increasingly important economic great powers in Asia. It covers the full range of human resource management activities, including recruitment, retention, performance management, renumeration, and career development, discusses changing industrial relations systems, and sets the subject in its historical, social and cultural contexts. It examines newly emerging strategies, and asssesses the extent to which human resource management systems in the two countries are coverging or diverging.

This ground-breaking book is the first in-depth empirical study of Chinese organizational design in state and private enterprises. Web-based Chinese management, a new paradigm in business studies, explains the dynamism of private Chinese enterprises and demonstrates the crucial role of micro-level organizational practices for economic development. It can be used anywhere in the world to help deal with the increasing uncertainty and complexity for the next millennium and can also be used as a framework for economic policy.