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Multinational Retailers and Consumers in China

Transferring Organizational Practices from the United Kingdom and Japan

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  • © 2011

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Authors:
  1. Jos Gamble

    1. Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

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Part of the book series: Consumption and Public Life (CUCO)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Jos Gamble
    Pages 1-17

  3. China’s Retail Sector in Context

    • Jos Gamble
    Pages 18-31

  4. Transferring Human Resource Practices from the United Kingdom to China

    • Jos Gamble
    Pages 32-52

  5. Shopfloor Perceptions of Employment Practices at UK-Store in China

    • Jos Gamble
    Pages 53-82

  6. Transferring Organizational Practices: A Diachronic Perspective from China

    • Jos Gamble, Qihai Huang
    Pages 83-106

  7. Transferring Organizational Practices and the Dynamics of Hybridization: Japanese Retail Multinationals in China

    • Jos Gamble
    Pages 107-140

  8. Multinational Retailers in China: Proliferating ‘McJobs’ or Developing Skills?

    • Jos Gamble
    Pages 141-172

  9. One Store, Two Employment Systems: Core, Periphery and Flexibility in China’s Retail Sector

    • Jos Gamble, Qihai Huang
    Pages 173-195

  10. The Rhetoric of the Consumer and Customer Control in China

    • Jos Gamble
    Pages 196-219

  11. Concluding Comments

    • Jos Gamble
    Pages 220-228

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 229-257
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About this book

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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"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

Authors and Affiliations

  • Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

    Jos Gamble

About the author

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

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