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...

The region of South-East Asia has received less attention than East Asia in the literature. Yet, it is important for several reasons. Not only does it possess huge markets for products (with over 400 million people in just the four countries we focus on here), but it also has rich sources of raw...

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...