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Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-09-2011
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2014
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 21-05-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2010
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 02-03-2011
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-2020
DOI: 10.1016/J.AUSMJ.2020.08.001
Abstract: Food-related cues can increase the time a person spends in the dining room. Increasing the time a person spends dining can improve their food intake. Studies on the use of music and olfactory cues have produced conflicting results. This study explores whether the portion size effect (PSE), the portion served, influences a person's consumption and can explain the inconsistent results. The study focused on testing this phenomenon with residents in an aged-care home. Malnutrition is often a problem with residents in aged-care facilities. Exposing the residents to various cues (music, olfactory and infographics) over seven weeks with different portions of food served. Results showed that the cues did not significantly impact, but PSE did, casting doubts on studies that did not control for the portion served. Discussions of the academic and managerial implications are also provided.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2022
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-03-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-2010
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 18-01-2013
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 06-2016
DOI: 10.1177/030630701604100404
Abstract: This study advances organisational learning research by exploring how and why learning patterns differ between different family businesses at different layers of China's market-oriented transformation. The focus is the locational difference, namely the separate urban and rural environments and outcomes. Combining case studies and in-depth interviews, the study investigated how family businesses interact with their institutional environment and consequently build learning patterns. Learning initiatives undertaken by relevant and motivated family members are found to reflect a dynamic process involving personal learning, business growth, and business innovation. Family conflicts and business growth were also found to impact learning in family businesses. Implications for organisational learning are discussed at the end of the paper.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-04-2018
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-2018
Abstract: Given the increasing influence of high-performance work systems (HPWS) in China under economic reform, so far most research has been focusing on MNCs in China, but not many studies have been undertaken on indigenous companies. In addition, most publications have investigated the relevant issues from a managerial perspective only. Therefore, we have designed this research by investigating the relevant issues among the indigenous companies in China from both managerial and employee perspectives. Based on semi-structured interviews with both managers and employees, we found (1) HPWS practices have been adopted by indigenous companies in China but at different levels with mixed HPWS and indigenous HRM practices, (2) managers and employees have different perceptions of the key elements of HPWS being adopted and (3) employees’ perceptions of HPWS policies and practices influence their attitude and behaviour. The outcomes suggest that positive employee–manager relationships enhance employee attitudes, and trust from management creates feelings of recognition, accomplishment and belonging. This research contributes to HRM research by filling the gaps in studies of the adoption by indigenous companies of mixed HRM practices incorporating indigenous HRM and foreign influences, such as HPWS, as well as highlighting the effect on employees.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 11-05-2010
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 12-11-2022
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 19-04-2023
DOI: 10.1177/03063070231172267
Abstract: Despite the rapid development of digital start-ups and market expansion in China, there have been challenges for developing digital business in recent years. Unique economic, institutional, and social factors, as well as the recent COVID-19 pandemic, influence the digital entrepreneurs and their businesses. Yet, the literature on the changing digital entrepreneurial behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic remains limited. The intentions and behaviours of these entrepreneurs in relation to their digital start-ups and the impact caused by exogenous changes require deeper investigation. By adopting an intention-based social cognitive perspective, this study examines the factors influencing digital entrepreneurs’ intentions and actions in managing their start-ups. We also present a holistic framework with regard to the changing entrepreneurial behaviour and policy implications for the development of digital start-ups.
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing House Ltd
Date: 09-05-2016
DOI: 10.1108/JCHRM-11-2015-0015
Abstract: This paper aims to examine the issue of promoting women managers at an enterprise level in China by tackling key research questions related to the level of participation of women among total managerial positions and the opportunities of promoting women into managerial position. By conducting a questionnaire survey and analysing the results from 296 women managers who were taking MBA and EMBA programmes in China, the authors were able to obtain the sufficient s le size, as well as sufficient responses, given that these people who were taking MBA and EMBA studies required three to eight years of managerial work experience. Key questions are related to the level of participation of women among total managerial positions, and the criteria for women to be promoted into managerial positions. In addition, other issues such as the satisfaction of women managers towards promotion opportunities and career development and enterprise policies on women leadership are also important and need to be explored in this article. It is also useful to ask their views on the difference between men and women regarding in idual efforts leading to promotion opportunities, and to check for any influence of pregnancy and other factors on women managers’ leadership roles. The overall results achieved by analysing the results from 296 women managers who were taking MBA and EMBA programmes in China indicate that there has been positive improvement, with the majority of women managers being satisfied with the proportion of women as managers, and with their own promotion situations, in their current organizations. The research project has some limitations. This paper focuses on key issues related to the promotion of women into management positions at an enterprise level through the interview and survey among those women managers who were taking MBA and EMBA programs. This research project did not include many issues that can be found among other women managers or issues at the society level, such as traditional culture and the influence of religion, or overall legislation regarding equal opportunity for women in the society, as the focus was on the experiences and expectations of in idual women managers in the workplace. Most people believed that social relationship, guanxi , is the most important factor in the promotion of women, but the findings in this paper show that the capabilities and achievements of women are more important than just having a good guanxi . This also inspires women to believe in themselves and believe that they can achieve their goals through their own effort. Other empirical implications, such as the negative influence of pregnancy on the current managerial positions and promotion opportunities for women, are evident, and the lack of policy initiative to address this issue causes a great degree of uncertainty among women managers. The majority of the surveyed targeted women managers felt confident about their capability to be leaders, while most of them felt satisfied regarding the proportion of women managers in their organization, as well as their own current promotion situation. However, the “glass ceiling” phenomenon still exists, given most highly educated women managers believed it would be difficult to be promoted even further. Through this article, the readers are firstly informed about the perceptions held by women managers in China nowadays regarding their promotion opportunities and career satisfaction. Secondly, the paper provides some understanding in the context of China’s reform from traditional planning system to the current market-oriented one, the associated change of business culture and the transformation of human resource management system and gender equality at the firm level.
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 06-2005
DOI: 10.1108/00483480510591471
Abstract: This paper examines the challenges facing China's employment relations after its WTO accession and consequently, the implications for further reform. Theoretical questions are considered in relation to the debate on globalization vs the nation‐state over political, economic and social issues. By examining the challenges from both internal and external sources, the paper investigates the impact on the employment relations system at both macro‐ and micro‐levels. The major finding of this paper is that the current system of employment relations system in China is in the process of transformation towards a “hybrid” model combining authoritarianism and neo‐corporatism. This paper provides the most recent analysis on the impact of WTO accession on the changing pattern of employment relations in China. It helps people who are interested in transitional economy in general and in China in particular to have a better understanding about the transformation of employment relations system under the influence of different forces.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-2011
DOI: 10.1111/J.1564-913X.2011.00108.X
Abstract: Reviewing recent labour developments and trade union policy shifts in historical perspective, this article explores the role of trade unions in China's efforts to promote a “harmonious society”. The much‐criticized “top‐down” approach associated with the All‐China Federation of Trade Unions, however, has led to growing pressure “from below”, as evidenced by the recent increase in the number of strikes. With an emergent new role for trade unions, the authors argue, an employment relations system “with Chinese characteristics” is now institutionally embedded in the People's Republic.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2013
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-10-2016
DOI: 10.1111/IMIG.12294
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 13-06-2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-04-2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 17-12-2015
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 25-02-2005
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-2020
Abstract: In this article, we target emerging market small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) internationalization by tackling two key questions: (1) What are the issues and challenges facing the emerging market SMEs in the process of internationalization in general and choice of destination in particular? (2) What are the strategies and processes being adopted by SMEs to overcome the challenges and limitations with specific reference to international destinations in developed economies as opposed to emerging markets? As we delve into these twin issues, we develop a conceptual framework, based on our mini case studies of Chinese and Indian SMEs to make complementary contribution to the research on the internationalization of emerging market SMEs. Finally, we pose a number of research questions for future research as the outcome of this article.
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 06-11-2017
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to investigate why managerial leaders engage in leader self-development (SD) vis-à-vis China’s transition process and what domains of leadership competencies are enhanced. It aims to investigate leader SD as an interaction between self-regulation and the confluence of multiple contexts experienced simultaneously by these managerial leaders within China’s transition. This paper adopts a two-phase exploratory sequential mixed-method design. The absence of empirical research on leader SD in China led to a qualitative approach in the initial stage. Focus groups were first conducted to establish the relevance of the focal construct in a holistic and elaborative way. In-depth interviews were then undertaken to capture the richness of the phenomenon through meaningful contextualization and to identify themes as representative of issues faced by participants. Seven themes emerged from this process, which, through consultation with the relevant literature, were operationalized in the second stage to generate a survey for hypothesis testing. The combination of insights from qualitative and quantitative studies highlights the dynamic and interactive nature of leader SD as a product of contextual and personal influences in China. The influential mechanisms connecting personal and contextual enablers and SD are in the cognitive processing of developmental needs and personal responsibility. Chinese managerial leaders who take the initiative to assess their own developmental needs and assume responsibility for their development are more likely to undertake SD. The developmental activities focus primarily on technical leadership competencies. A competency perspective to development may not address fully complexities involved in leader development. Also developing leadership competencies is an ongoing process. Due to limited time and fund, this paper did not take a time perspective to investigate both the immediate and long-term outcomes of leader SD. SD is an emerging strategy that has the potential to address the shortage of managerial leadership competencies. The analysis of the self-regulatory process explains the mediating dynamism underlying different domains of leader SD. Recruitment focusing on people with a relatively higher degree of self-regulation thus increases the potential for organizations to staff themselves with employees aware of, and prepared for, SD organization would like to take place. It is also advisable that organizations make efforts to create a learning environment in general. This mixed-method approach provides a multi-layered investigation that ultimately adds rigor and relevance to the research findings. It is this analysis of the complex web of economic, social and cultural contexts existing in China, and applying them to social cognitive theory as an explanatory platform, that underpins the originality of the study.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 21-03-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2018
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 17-03-2016
Publisher: Academy of Management
Date: 08-2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2003
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-2007
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2008
DOI: 10.1002/HRM.20202
Publisher: Japanese Studies, University of Dhaka
Date: 30-12-2022
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-07-2015
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-1999
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2017
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 27-11-2022
DOI: 10.1177/03063070221080558
Abstract: Millennial Iranian entrepreneurs, as an emerging business class, face new realities rarely seen in other countries due to the harsh and uncertain contextual environment. As young and dynamic entrepreneurs, they want to build independent careers by developing new start-up businesses to address the social and economic needs of the masses and, at the same time, to earn an income to ensure their economic survival. However, given the difficult business environment with domestic challenges and international embargos, these entrepreneurs find themselves faced with many problematic issues. Therefore, this research is based on the concept of entrepreneurial persistence for survival and aims to investigate how Iranian millennial entrepreneurs develop businesses in a difficult contextual environment. A new conceptual framework and a number of propositions for future research have been offered in this study on the basis of the findings. Implications for policy and practices are also discussed with the focus on possible policy reform, better entrepreneurial education as well as other incentives to support millennial entrepreneurs.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-2005
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 23-11-2004
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-01-2017
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2013
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 13-12-2022
DOI: 10.1177/03063070221145859
Abstract: False advertising has many negative consequences for the protection of consumer rights and wellbeing. In emerging economies in particular, false advertising has been widespread across business sectors and products due to inadequate public policy and ineffective law enforcement. Since the COVID-19 global pandemic has spread around the world, people have become more dependent on e-commerce for purchasing goods and services, and the negative impact has become historically high with increasing number of advertising and sales cyber-fakes However, prior studies have not focused on consumers’ perceived deception and information asymmetry in false advertising in general, and the consequent implications for public policy in controlling and eliminating such problems, specifically in emerging economies. This study focuses on the ex le of China as a leading emerging economy to investigate the relevant issues and contribute to extant knowledge by linking separate paradigms with a new holistic conceptual framework that identifies the key elements of contextual factors, consumers’ perceived deception and information asymmetry, the causes and impacts, and the expected policy implications for further prevention.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2018
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 11-08-2023
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-09-2012
Publisher: UniSA Business School
Date: 2016
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2020
Publisher: Innovation-Hub Ecosystem Research Team
Date: 2021
DOI: 10.25954/XZWG-XX31
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 02-10-2017
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-2017
Abstract: This study contributes to the leadership literature by applying the complexity leadership paradigm within China’s fringe arts businesses. China’s societal transformation provides a rich site that is far more complex than the one in established economies. Concerned with the evolving role of arts and cultural leadership within such context, this study explores the emergent, interactive dynamism between leaders, leadership and multiple contexts organized at different levels. Using an evidence-based approach, this study draws from in-depth case studies of two fringe arts businesses in Beijing. The findings not only enrich the model that describes the strategic goals of arts and cultural businesses, but also reveals leader behaviours and approaches used to achieve adaptive outcomes of complexity leadership. Overall, the study provides insights into the practice of arts and cultural leadership socially constructed within a context of drastic change and uncertainty.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 16-02-2022
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 09-09-2021
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 29-05-2013
Publisher: IGI Global
Date: 2016
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0169-5.CH008
Abstract: Universities need to provide effective support for students and staff to successfully engage in intercultural learning activities as part of outbound mobility experiences. This chapter addresses the less researched area of pre-departure support for student mobility experiences in Asia. The research participants for this study included eight academic study tour leaders and three administrative staff, plus five student focus groups representing various disciplines in one Australian university. All participants had recently undertaken a short-term study tour to an Asian destination. This chapter identifies the key areas of preparation for a short-term study tour from the multiple perspectives of those who organise and lead the study tour, to those who participate in the experience. The chapter concludes with recommendations for how preparation for short-term study tours may be improved, including a discussion of roles and responsibilities for students, staff and their institutions.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-04-2023
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-2010
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2022
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2022
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2015
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 29-08-2002
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 25-05-2022
DOI: 10.1177/03128962221098134
Abstract: The place-based regional industrial strategies provide a novel approach to examining the role of science parks in enhancing regional innovation with place-based policies. With qualitative interviews and case analyses, this study investigates how a place-based science park affects innovation activities of technology-focused companies. Our research findings demonstrate paradoxical nature with both positive and negative aspects of firms’ strategies that cope with obstacles such as the lack of funding for R& D and weak policy on IP protection. These obstacles hinder the collaboration on innovation and strengthen the effect of economic uncertainty on companies’ short-term survival orientation. Important implications for both theory and practice are discussed with possible future research directions identified. JEL Classification: O32, M10, M38
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 07-09-2015
DOI: 10.1108/LODJ-03-2014-0047
Abstract: – The purpose of this paper is to explore the contemporary paradigm of business leadership vis-à-vis China’s reform and transitional context. – The paper employs an evidence-based approach to explore the business leadership issues influenced by economic reform and within the context of societal transition in China. A qualitative research method was adopted based on in-depth interviews with a number of middle managers from a variety of Chinese enterprises, including state-owned, domestic-private and foreign-invested enterprises. Content analysis of several rounds of interviews added depth to the data analysis. – The findings complement existing thoughts and illustrate concepts, issues, and characteristics not yet emphasized in mainstream literature. General patterns and associated characteristics of business leadership in China, as well as specific patterns associated with different forms of enterprise ownerships, are identified. – The study makes a timely and necessary contribution that enriches context-specific understandings of business leadership against the backdrop of surrounding economic, social, and cultural changes. – The study enriches understandings of commonalities and differences in leadership across the globe, facilitating working collaboratively to achieve common goals in a global community. – The study offers new insights into business leadership by linking contextual, personal, and cognitional factors together and demonstrates some unique characteristics of leadership styles in transitional economies like China.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2006
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-08-2019
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 27-04-2021
Abstract: In Japan there is a significant mismatch between the skills new‐generation employees possess and the skills employers expect, with Japanese employers reporting a lower average satisfaction with graduate skills than that reported globally. By drawing on the concepts of ‘future work self’ and ‘proactive career behaviour’, this paper compares and contrasts the similarities and differences between Japanese and international students who will enter the workforce soon and explores why such a big gap in skills exists. As the results show, due to their unique social and cultural background and the influence of their contextual environments, fewer Japanese students develop the knowledge and skills important to their futures in comparison with international students, making them largely reliant on the concept of an organisational career rather than a proactively self‐managed one. Better graduate outcomes require more tailor‐made career counselling services to support students. Students should also familiarise themselves with employers’ expectations regarding desired skills.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 28-11-2006
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 06-2019
DOI: 10.1017/MOR.2019.21
Abstract: Nowadays social entrepreneurship is recognized as a two-way process, addressing both social and economic concerns that can bring social inclusion, equity, and development to disadvantaged groups in society. This aspect is particularly important and desirable within emerging economies. In these markets, which are constantly faced with profound economic and social challenges, we see the growing importance of social entrepreneurs as they take upon themselves the provision of welfare services and progressive activities. However, our understanding of the mechanisms underlying the creation of social and economic values in social enterprises, and the factors contributing to the establishment of these value creation objectives, is still rather fragmented. Our article contributes to this gap in the literature by decoding the process via which for-profit social entrepreneurs from China and India create social and economic value. In addition, by combining a deductive and an inductive approach of analysis, we offer novel insights into the context-dependent processual patterns deciphered within the two countries. A new entrepreneurial process framework that reflects the contextualized social value creation process by social entrepreneurs is thus provided.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 20-01-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2019
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 29-02-2012
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2004
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2010
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-2015
DOI: 10.1177/030630701504100202
Abstract: In recent years, there has been increasing argument for studying the business environment through a research design focused on international business. Given the importance of China and India to the global economy and the lack of studies on Chinese and Indian multinational companies (MNCs) operating in each other's country, this paper aims to contribute by extending knowledge of the contextual factors that support or inhibit ventures, operations and growth of Chinese and Indian MNCs operating in each other's country. Meaningful implications include: first, the ‘context’ becomes the subject of investigation, instead of being just one of the elements in the research design and second, Chinese and Indian business environments are mapped and analysed with reference to multiple contextual dimensions (i.e. market context, institutional context and organisational context) and illustrate the impact of these factors on the functioning and performance of the subsidiaries of Chinese and Indian MNCs.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 28-11-2018
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 26-06-2017
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 05-09-2019
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-2014
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 05-03-2013
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