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Understanding Chinese Firms from Multiple Perspectives

  • Illustrates the growing patterns and dynamics of Chinese enterprises in the past three decades from multilevel and multidisciplinary perspectives

  • Concludes the experience and lessons, perplexity and paradox, learning and innovations encountered by Chinese enterprises

  • Reveals the characteristics of external environments of Chinese enterprises, the changing track of entrepreneurs, the evolution of the enterprises’ organizational structure and systems, the formation of firm culture, the unique pattern of Chinese team work, and the Chinese communication styles and conflict resolution

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
  2. Business and Government

    • Jianjun Zhang, Shu Lin
    Pages 51-79
  3. The Growth Path of Entrepreneurs

    • Zhi-Xue Zhang
    Pages 81-118
  4. Corporate Culture

    • Li Ma
    Pages 149-176
  5. The Survival Wisdom of Middle Managers

    • Yulan Han
    Pages 177-198
  6. Work Teams in Chinese Enterprises

    • Jing Qiu
    Pages 281-305
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 333-347

About this book

Previous analysis on the “Chinese Economic Miracle” mostly talks about macro-economy but neglects the study on the basic element of the Chinese Miracle – the enterprises. With China’s economic rise, Chinese enterprises experienced a rapid process of adaptation, change and development, and also become strong competitors in the world market. This book sets forth the explorations and thoughts on Chinese enterprise management practices from both academic and practical perspective, extracts the management theory of Chinese characteristics, and represents the efforts to establish and develop Chinese organization and management.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, Beijing, China

    Zhi-Xue Zhang, Jianjun Zhang

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Understanding Chinese Firms from Multiple Perspectives

  • Editors: Zhi-Xue Zhang, Jianjun Zhang

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54417-0

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Peking University Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-54416-3Published: 03 July 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-51506-8Published: 17 September 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-54417-0Published: 19 June 2014

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 347

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Emerging Markets/Globalization

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eBook USD 84.99
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