TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gamble,Jos
TI  - Multinational retailers and consumers in China: transferring organizational practices from the United Kingdom and Japan 
T2  - Consumption and public life
SN  - 9780230545526 (alk. paper)
AV  - HF5429.6.C5 G36 2011
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Basingstoke, Hampshire, New York, NY
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Retail trade
KW  - China
KW  - Management
KW  - Corporations, Japanese
KW  - Personnel management
KW  - Corporations, British
KW  - Consumer satisfaction
KW  - Organizational learning
N1  - 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
ER  -