Demystifying Chinese Management: Issues and Challenges

Today, with a new leadership in place, the People’s Republic of China enters a challenging new phase as an emerging economic superpower. The Chinese economy has dramatically changed over the three decades since Deng Xiaoping launched his economic reforms in 1978. It has been transformed from a command economy dominated by state-owned enterprises to a market socialist economy with a wide range of ownership forms, both public and private. In turn, its managers and management have correspondingly undergone a major sea-change.

This edited collection attempts to demystify Chinese management, highlighting recent research into these significant changes and their implications in a wide range of business enterprises both in China and overseas. It points to the strategic challenges and issues in terms of realizing the managerial version of the ‘Chinese Dream’. The topics covered include business schools in China, corporate social responsibility, financial services, impression management, international human resource management, international competitive strategy choices, internationalization of firms and the role of science parks.

The book was originally published as a special issue of Asia Pacific Business Review.

Malcolm Warner is Professor and Fellow Emeritus, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, UK, and Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, UK. He was the Editor-in-Chief, of the International Encyclopedia of Business and Management [IEBM], 8 volumes (2002), and the author/editor of many books and articles on China. His new work Understanding management in China: Past, present and future, (Routledge, 2013) is in press. He is currently Co-Editor of the Asia Pacific Business Review.

Chris Rowley is Professor of HRM at Cass Business School, City University, London, UK and Director of the Centre for Research in Asian Management and Director, Research and Publications, HEAD Foundation, Singapore. He has published widely in the field of HRM and Asian business and management in the leading journals and in edited books. He is currently Co-Editor of the Asia Pacific Business Review.