This book argues that China's businesses, and hence China's future economic development, face a huge crisis in that there is a considerable "leadership gap" in China, with a shortage of competent business leaders, at a time when new leadership skills are required urgently, as China's businesses evolve rapidly and engage ever more with the global economy. Moreover, the book argues, training is an undervalued and often marginalised activity in Chinese companies. The book outlines the nature of this problem, and goes on to demonstrate that there is a new breed of manager emerging in China,...

China s economic reforms have brought the country both major international clout and widespread domestic prosperity. At the same time, the reforms have led to significant social upheaval, particularly manifest in labour relations. Each year, several thousand disputes break out over working conditions, many of them violent, and the Chinese state has responded with both legal and political strategies.

This book investigates how Chinese governments have used law, and other forms of regulation, to govern working conditions and combat labour disputes. Starting from the early years of...

Managing Chinese Outward Foreign Direct Investment focuses on the management of Chinese outward foreign direct investment at the organisational level. Considering investment as a process, the book addresses managerial issues from strategic entry decisions to corporate sustainable development.

The emergence of a new regional economic architecture in Northeast Asia raises a number of important political economic implications. This book investigates the rationale, structure and form of this development. It critically examines the evolution of the political economy of Northeast Asian regionalism.

This book is a combination of strong pre-existing and working knowledge of the political economies of three countries: China, Japan and Korea. Due to the exploratory, theory-building nature of the research, and interviews with key informants combined with critical published...

The quality of its business leadership is a key issue for the future development of Asia s economies. Although Asia s economies have grown spectacularly in recent decades, they are currently facing increasing challenges. This book explores the current state of business leadership in Asia. It demonstrates that there is no single model of Asian business leadership, and that Western models often do not fit easily alongside Asian cultural values. It discusses how relatively developed Asian economies Japan, Korea and Taiwan, former socialist economies China and Vietnam, and large Asian...