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Multinational retailers and consumers in China : transferring organizational practices from the United Kingdom and Japan / Jos Gamble.

By: Series: Consumption and public lifePublication details: Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, c2011.Description: xii, 257 p. : ill. ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780230545526 (alk. paper)
  • 0230545521 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HF5429.6.C5 G36 2011
Contents:
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.

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.

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