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.

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Main Authors: Gamble, Jos, 1959
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Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Series: Consumption and public life
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Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230317000
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.
Item Description: Electronic book text.
Epublication based on: 9780230545526, 2011.
Carrier Form: 272 p. : 11 b&w, halftones, 34 23.
ISBN: 9780230545526
9780230317000 :
0230317006 :
CLC: F713.32
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