Multinational Retailers and Consumers in China [electronic resource] : Transferring Organizational Practices from the United Kingdom and Japan /
Gamble, J.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- China's retail sector in context -- Transferring human resource practices from the United Kingdom to China -- Shopfloor perceptions of employment practices at UK-store in China -- Transferring organizational practices : a diachronic perspective from China with Qihai Huang -- Transferring organizational practices and the dynamics of hybridization : Japanese retail multinationals in China -- Multinational retailers in China : proliferating 'MCJobs' or developing skills? -- One store, two employment systems : core, periphery and flexibility in China's retail sector with Qihai Huang -- The rhetoric of the consumer and customer control in China -- Concluding comments.
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.
Sociology.
Marketing.
Sociology, Urban.
Business.
Management science.
Industrial sociology.
Trade.
Commerce.
Sociology, general.
Marketing.
Urban Studies/Sociology.
Business and Management, general.
Sociology of Work.
Trade.