| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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| Title Information: |
transferring organizational practices from the United Kingdom and Japan |
| Author: |
GambleJos, 1959- |
| Place of Publication: |
Basingstoke, Hampshire New York, NY |
| Published: |
Palgrave Macmillan; |
| Year of Publication: |
c2011 |
| Description: |
1 online resource (xii, 257 p.)ill. : |
| Series: |
Consumption and public life |
| Subject: |
Retail trade - Management. - China - |
| Subject: |
Corporations, Japanese - Personnel management. - China - |
| Subject: |
Corporations, British - Personnel management. - China - |
| Subject: |
Personnel management - China. - |
| Subject: |
Consumer satisfaction - China. - |
| Subject: |
Organizational learning - China. - |
| Subject: |
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS - Industries - |
| Online resource: |
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230317000An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| Notes: |
Description based on print version record. |
| Summary: |
"Rising prosperity and a rapidly commercializing economy have transformed post-Mao China into the world's largest and most rapidly growing emerging market. Until the early 1990s, its retail sector remained largely closed to overseas retailers. Since then, this sector has gradually opened to foreign involvement, a process boosted by China joining the World Trade Organization in 2001. China now constitutes an increasingly significant market for overseas retailers. Based upon extensive first hand comparative research conducted at multinational retailers from the United Kingdom and Japan, this book investigates the transfer of parent country organizational practices by these retailers to their Chinese subsidiaries. Providing insights into employment relations in multinational retail firms as well as changing labour-management systems in China, this book delineates some of their impacts�on consumer culture in a developing country"--Provided by publisher. |
| ISBN: |
9780230317000electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
0230317006electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
9780230318984electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
0230318983electronic bk. |
| Content Note: |
Introduction China's retail sector in context Transferring human resource practices from the United Kingdom to China Shopfloor perceptions of employment practices at UK-store in China Transferring organizational practices: a diachronic perspective from China with Qihai Huang Transferring organizational practices and the dyclmics of hybridization: Japanese retail multinationals in China Multinational retailers in China: proliferating 'MCJobs' or developing skills? One store, two employment systems: core, periphery and flexibility in China's retail sector with Qihai Huang The rhetoric of the consumer and customer control in China Concluding comments. |