J. Gamble

Multinational Retailers and Consumers in China

Transferring Organizational Practices from the United Kingdom and Japan

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Consumption and Public Life
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-54552-6
• 2011
• Seitenzahl: 257
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 142mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 427g
• ISBN-13: 9780230545526
• ISBN-10: 0230545521
• Artikelnr.: 33609210

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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

Rezensionen

"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