Multinational Retailers and Consumers in China
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Multinational Retailers and Consumers in China

Transferring Organizational Practices from the United Kingdom and Japan

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Multinational Retailers and Consumers in China

Transferring Organizational Practices from the United Kingdom and Japan

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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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Year
2011
ISBN
9780230317000

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Tables
  4. List of Images
  5. Preface
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Notes on the Contributors
  8. 1 Introduction
  9. 2 China's Retail Sector in Context
  10. 3 Transferring Human Resource Practices from the United Kingdom to China
  11. 4 Shopfloor Perceptions of Employment Practices at UK-Store in China
  12. 5 Transferring Organizational Practices: A Diachronic Perspective from China
  13. 6 Transferring Organizational Practices and the Dynamics of Hybridization: Japanese Retail Multinationals in China
  14. 7 Multinational Retailers in China: Proliferating 'McJobs' or Developing Skills?
  15. 8 One Store, Two Employment Systems: Core, Periphery and Flexibility in China's Retail Sector
  16. 9 The Rhetoric of the Consumer and Customer Control in China
  17. 10 Concluding Comments
  18. References
  19. Index