How can we best understand how people are managed in the new kinds of Western-influenced enterprises currently emerging in the People's Republic of China? In this article, we look in depth at 20 Shanghai-based, foreign-invested enterprises (FIEs) in order to analyse their human resource dilemmas...

This study examines the challenges facing China's increasingly complex labour-management relations system vis-a-vis the new economic, political and social environment it faces and how it is adapting to the new concept of the ‘harmonious society’ -- to which the new Chinese leadership now...