Routledge Handbook of Chinese Business and Management

<p>This handbook representing the collaboration of 36 scholars provides a multi-faceted exploration of Chinese business and management.</p><p>The volume represents an ‘inside-out’ perspective offering local knowledge and experience in conjunction with an ‘outside-in’ approach presenting measured and sensitive observations from an outsider’s perspective. The handbook’s approach is organised around five key themes:</p><ul> <li>Cultural and institutional contexts for business in China</li> <li>Management including digital marketing and entrepreneurship</li> <li>Work and employment covering gender and trade unions in the workplace</li> <li>Human resource management and human resource development in Chinese businesses including multinational corporations in the UK</li> <li>Business and economic overviews revealing the impact of <i>guanxi </i>relations and networks on Chinese business and management</li> </ul><p>Revealing major recent developments in Chinese business and management alongside an appreciation of the unique historical institutional and cultural context of Chinese business and management this book is a must-read for scholars students and educators of Chinese business and theory and business in Asia.</p>