Multinational Retailers and Consumers in China - Transferring Organizational Practices from the United Kingdom and Japan

This book investigates the transfer of parent country organizational practices by the retailers to their Chinese subsidiaries, providing insights into employment relations in multinational retail firms and changing labour-management systems in China, as well as their impact on consumer culture.

List of contents

List of Tables List of Images Preface Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction China's Retail Sector in Context Transferring Human Resource Practices from the United Kingdom to China; with Q.Huang Shopfloor Perceptions of Employment Practices at UK-Store in China Transferring Organizational Practices: A Diachronic Perspective from China Transferring Organizational Practices and the Dynamics 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 Q.Huang The Rhetoric of the Consumer and Customer Control in China Concluding Comments

About the author

QIHAI HUANG is a Senior Lecturer at Lancaster University Management School, UK.

Summary

This book investigates the transfer of parent country organizational practices by the retailers to their Chinese subsidiaries, providing insights into employment relations in multinational retail firms and changing labour-management systems in China, as well as their impact on consumer culture.

Additional text

"Existing reasearch tends to focus on the manufactiuring sector more than any other, and this is especially true in the case of emerging economies. This book by Gamble makes a significant effort to fill this gap with the strengths of both unique method and new findings" - Social Science Japan Journal

Report

"Existing reasearch tends to focus on the manufactiuring sector more than any other, and this is especially true in the case of emerging economies. This book by Gamble makes a significant effort to fill this gap with the strengths of both unique method and new findings" - Social Science Japan Journal

Product details

• Authors: J Gamble, J. Gamble
• Publisher: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2011
• EAN: 9781349361052
• ISBN: 978-1-349-36105-2
• No. of pages: 257
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 14 mm x 216 mm
• Weight: 347 g
• Illustrations: XII, 257 p.
• Series: Consumption and Public Life; Consumption and Public Life
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Marketing, B, Business, Sociology, Economics, Market research, Business and Management, trade, Business & management, Business and Management, general, Sociology, general, Commerce, Urban Sociology, Sales & marketing, Sociology: work & labour, Management science, Sociology, Urban, Urban Studies/Sociology, Urban communities, Sociology of Work, Industrial sociology, Palgrave Business & Management Collection, Trade and Retail, management;Nation;organization;organizations