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Management and Organizations in the Chinese Context

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • J. T. Li, Anne S. Tsui, Elizabeth Weldon
      Pages 1-5
  3. Management in the Chinese Context

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
    2. China’s Transitional Economy

      • Andrew G. Walder
      Pages 63-83
    3. A Cultural Analysis of Paternalistic Leadership in Chinese Organizations

      • Jiing-Lih Farh, Bor-Shiuan Cheng
      Pages 84-127
  4. Joint Venture Management and Negotiation in China

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129
    2. Control and Performance in Sino-Foreign Equity Joint Ventures

      • Pien Wang, Yunye Zhi, Kong Yam Tan
      Pages 131-156
    3. Operating Modes and Performance: US High-Technology Ventures in China

      • Mark Cannice, John D. Daniels
      Pages 157-184
    4. International Business Negotiation in the Chinese Context

      • Xinping Shi, Robert I. Westwood
      Pages 185-221
  5. Chinese Organizational Behaviour

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 223-223
    2. Guanxi in the Chinese Context

      • Anne S. Tsui, Jiing-Lih Farh, Katherine R. Xin
      Pages 225-244
    3. Guanxi and the Dynamics of Overseas Chinese Entrepreneurial Behaviour in Southeast Asia

      • John E. Butler, Brad Brown, Wai Chamornmarn
      Pages 245-268
    4. Teamwork in China: Where Reality Challenges Theory and Practice1

      • Xiangming Chen, James W. Bishop, K. Dow Scott
      Pages 269-282
  6. Managerial Perspectives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 323-323

About this book

This book encompasses the latest thinking on management and organisations in China's transitional economy. It examines key topics in areas including the reform of state enterprises, management of international joint ventures, business networks and guanxi, and Chinese organizational behaviour.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

    J. T. Li, Anne S. Tsui, Elizabeth Weldon

About the editors

J.T.LI is Wei-Lun Fellow and Associate Professor of strategic and international management at the School of Business and Management, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and a co-director of the Hang Lung Center for Organizational Research. He has published widely in leading management journals on issues related to multinational business strategy, international corporate governance, and joint venture success in China.

ANNE S.TSUI is Professor and Head of the Department of Management of Organizations at the School of Business and Management, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, a fellow of the Academy of Management, and Founding Director of the Hang Lung Center for Organizational Research. Her research interests include leadership and leadership team effectiveness, strategy human resource management, relational demography, employment relationships and guanxi in Chinese settings.

ELIZABETH WELDON is Associate Professor of Management at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Her research includes studies of interaction and conflict management in US-Chinese joint ventures.

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