Chinese Business Books

New and Published Books

1. Foreign Direct Investment in China

   Spillover Effects on Domestic Enterprises

   By Ziliang Deng

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

   This book provides an insightful exploration of whether foreign direct investment (FDI) can promote the productivity of domestic enterprises. The book is based on a series of dedicated research conducted in the context of the Chinese economy, which has been the largest FDI host among the developing...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
2. Prospects for the Professions in China

   Edited by William P Alford, William Kirby, Kenneth Winston

   Series: Routledge Studies on Civil Society in Asia

   Professionals are a growing group in China and increasingly make their presence felt in governance and civil society. At the same time, however, professionals in the West are under increasing pressure from commercialism or scepticism about their ability to rise above self-interest. This book...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
3. Whither Chinese HRM?

   Paradigms, Models and Theories

   Edited by Malcolm Warner

   This symposium explores Chinese people-management as an academic subject, looking at where it is currently going and the likely direction of its progress. After the economic reforms introduced by Deng Xiaoping in 1978, China saw the introduction of Human Resource Management (HRM). This book...

   Published April 4th 2013 by Routledge
4. China's Changing Workplace

   Dynamism, diversity and disparity

   Edited by Peter Sheldon, Sunghoon Kim, Yiqiong Li, Malcolm Warner

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   This book explores the diversity and dynamism of China’s workplaces and of the wider labour market experiences of its workforce. Drawing on the authors’ extensive recent research, it considers a diverse range of issues and types of workplaces. These changes include: the continuing spread of...

   Published March 4th 2013 by Routledge
5. Japanese Multinationals in China

   Edited by Sierk A. Horn, Adam R. Cross

   China is poised to gain global importance as a growth engine for the world economy on a par with Europe and the USA. Japanese multinational enterprises are increasingly active in relocating to China their R&D and capital- and knowledge-intensive production for both export-platform and target...

   Published February 26th 2013 by Routledge
6. Disruptive Innovation in Chinese and Indian Businesses

   The Strategic Implications for Local Entrepreneurs and Global Incumbents

   Edited by Peter Ping Li

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   With the rapid development of China and India as new economic powers in global competition, an obvious question is whether these emerging economies are great opportunities or threats. Whilst answers are bound to differ depending on one’s perspective, it is increasingly clear that more local firms,...

   Published February 24th 2013 by Routledge
7. Corporate Governance and Banking in China

   By Michael Tan

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   As China began its economic reforms in the late 1970s and made a transition from planned to a market economy, corporate governance of the banking sector became an increasingly pressing issue. Further, in the aftermath of the Asian Financial Crises in the late 1990s, Chinese authorities became...

   Published February 24th 2013 by Routledge
8. Chinese Family Business and the Equal Inheritance System

   Unravelling the Myth

   By Victor Zheng

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   This book disputes the traditional argument that the equal inheritance system hinders the growth of Chinese family business, approaching this not only in terms of economic capital, but also in terms of human capital such as education and leadership, and social networks. Zheng argues that most of...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
9. Tiger Girls

   Women and Enterprise in the People's Republic of China

   By Minglu Chen

   Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition

   The existing scholarship on women in China suggests that gender inequality still exists against the background of the country’s reform and opening in recent years. However, the situation of women in enterprise ownership and leadership seems to indicate that despite such notions of disadvantage...

   Published January 16th 2013 by Routledge
10. Consumers and Individuals in China

    Standing Out, Fitting In

    By Michael B. Griffiths

    Series: Chinese Worlds

    Breaking new ground in the study of Chinese urban society, this book applies critical discourse analysis to ethnographic data gathered in Anshan, a third-tier city and market in northeast China. The book confronts the – still widespread – notion that Chinese consumers are not "real" individuals,...

    Published December 9th 2012 by Routledge