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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.
List of contents
Part I: Introduction.- Chapter 1: Overview: Governance, Risk, Technology and Value.- Part II: Governance.- Chapter 2: Managing Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in China.- Chapter 3: Transformation and Institutional Change of Corporate Governance.- Chapter 4: Emerging Polycentric Pattern in Governing Transitional China.- Chapter 5: Accounting Information Fusion for Decision Making.- Part III: Risk.- Chapter 6: Early Warning System for Finance.- Chapter 7: New Consumers' Perspective in Insuring Earthquakes.- Chapter 8: Corporate Eleemosynary Behavior.- Part IV: Technology.- Chapter 9: Technology Management for New Product Development.- Chapter 10: Entrepreneurial Innovation and Performance in Forestry.- Chapter 11: Eco-Labeling, Visioning and Integration.- Part V: Values.- Chapter 12: Chinese Philosophy, Values and Culture.- Chapter 13: Yin-Yang Harmony for Management.- Chapter 14: Destructive Leadership, Employees' Voice and Organization.
About the author
Research Professor Dr Foo Check Teck PhD (St Andrews) MBA (Award Winner, Finance, Cass Business School) LLB (Hons, London) FCCA FCMA FCA FCIM Barrister Advocate & Solicitor is founding editor-in-chief of
Chinese Management Studies (Emerald Publishers, founded 2010, SSCI listed 2011). To foster research into Chinese management he founded the
Global Chinese Management Studies Conference(5
th year). Now in Singapore, he has lived in major cities: London, New York and Tokyo. He had lectured across many cities (up to 50 cities) even in Vientiane (Laos), Yangon (Myanmar), Ho Chi Min and Hanoi (Vietnam), Umea (Sweden), Lhasa (Tibet), Harbin (Heilongjiang), Lanzhou (Gansu, China), Colombo (Sri Lanka), Varanasi (India), Tokyo (Japan), Daejeon (Korea).
Straits Times chose him as Asia's Mover and Shaker: naming him Singapore's "Man of Renaissance". Unlike narrowly focused professors, he had published papers in refereed journals across diverse disciplines, creating world's first AI judge of aesthetics. He held many visiting professorships across Asia, Europe and America and continues to be receiving invitations. Harvard University Kennedy School of Government invited him to co-chair a panel discussion. In US Journal of Risk Finance; Vol. 9(3), 292-302, he anticipated primal fear that gripped US populace. India's Chartered Financial Analysts invited him to share his strategic analyses of General Motors (Analyst, August 2008). He had researched extensivel
y on corporate productivity published as single author in leading journals (
Omega, Organization Studies, British Journal of Industrial Relations): currently Chief Expert to University Murdoch-SMA research on manufacturing productivity. He had been APO Chief Expert for a multi-country research on productivity in service industries. His doctoral investigation into performances of ASEAN publicly listed corporations had received global acclaim: he was consultant to US History TV
Sun Tzu Art of War.
Summary
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.
