Multinational retailers and consumers in China
Subtitle: transferring organizational practices from the United Kingdom and Japan
By: Jos Gamble
Series: Consumption and public life; Consumption and public life
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9780230545526
Subjects: British Corporations; Management; Consumer satisfaction; Japanese Corporations; Organizational learning; Personnel management; Retail trade
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: China's retail sector in context; title: Transferring human resource practices from the United Kingdom to China; title: Shopfloor perceptions of employment practices at UK-store in China; title: Transferring organizational practices : a diachronic perspective from China with Qihai Huang; title: Transferring organizational practices and the dynamics of hybridization : Japanese retail multinationals in China; title: Multinational retailers in China : proliferating 'MCJobs' or developing skills?; title: One store, two employment systems : core, periphery and flexibility in China's retail sector with Qihai Huang; title: The rhetoric of the consumer and customer control in China; title: Concluding comments.