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Alan Fox and the managerial “unitary” frame of reference in unionised companies: context, roots, elaboration and international applicability (2024)
Journal Article

Purpose This study investigates the origins and elaboration of the managerial “unitary” frame of reference associated with Alan Fox, focusing on unionised firms: the industrial relations context, intellectual roots, elaboration, adaptation by other... Read More about Alan Fox and the managerial “unitary” frame of reference in unionised companies: context, roots, elaboration and international applicability.

Leave or not to leave? The impact of managerial work-life support and work engagement on the outcomes of work-to-life conflict for China's new generation employees (2023)
Journal Article

This paper explores how work engagement and managerial work-life support can influence the relationship between work-to-life conflict and turnover intention for China’s new generation employees. Drawing on job demand-resources (JD-R) theory and time-... Read More about Leave or not to leave? The impact of managerial work-life support and work engagement on the outcomes of work-to-life conflict for China's new generation employees.

Trade Unions in China: The Dynamics of Labour Relations and State-ancillary Unionism in Transition (2023)
Book Chapter

This chapter reviews the background and organisation of Chinese trade unions, their role in worker participation, rights protection and mobilisation, and their relationships with employers and the state. The analysis in the chapter reiterates the ess... Read More about Trade Unions in China: The Dynamics of Labour Relations and State-ancillary Unionism in Transition.

SDG 8, Decent Work, and Post-Covid Recovery: Policy Implications, Challenges, and Opportunities in the UK (2022)
Book Chapter

Promoting decent work is at the heart of the United Nations’ eighth Sustainable Development Goal (SDG), which sets the access to decent work as an important priority for both employers and policy makers to improve social justice, develop sustainable... Read More about SDG 8, Decent Work, and Post-Covid Recovery: Policy Implications, Challenges, and Opportunities in the UK.

BOOK REVIEW The Impact of Organizational Ethical Climate on Organizational Commitment and Job Performance: An Economic Ethics Analysis of Japanese-funded Manufacturing Enterprises in China (2022)
Journal Article

The impact of the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic on the labour market and labour relations in the UK (2021)
Book Chapter

Since 2020, the new crown pneumonia epidemic has brought a great impact on the rights and interests of workers. In response to the problems of labor relations and labor rights protection during the anti-epidemic resumption of work, my country has imp... Read More about The impact of the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic on the labour market and labour relations in the UK.

G20: led by Russia and China, world’s ‘emerging powers’ look to push unified agenda (2020)
Digital Artefact

Decent Work in China (2020)
Book Chapter

Foreign Direct Investment and Decent Work in Sub-Saharan Africa (2020)
Book Chapter

Heterogeneity in top management teams and outward foreign direct investment: evidence from Chinese listed companies (2019)
Journal Article

Drawing upon the knowledge-based view and team learning, we investigated how heterogeneity in top management teams (TMTs) in China influences global expansion strategies. Using panel data from Chinese listed firms from 2008 to 2014, we found that TMT... Read More about Heterogeneity in top management teams and outward foreign direct investment: evidence from Chinese listed companies.

International networking and knowledge acquisition of Chinese SMEs: The role of global mind-set and international entrepreneurial orientation (2019)
Journal Article

Chinese small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are increasing their international networking and knowledge acquisition activities. This paper attempts to explain this phenomenon by examining the joint influence of leader global mind-set and firms’... Read More about International networking and knowledge acquisition of Chinese SMEs: The role of global mind-set and international entrepreneurial orientation.

The Emerging Industrial Relations of China , William Brown and Chang Kai (eds) Cambridge University Press, 2018, 250 pp., £22.99 (2019)
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Why Do Trade Unions Revitalize? The Study on Union Revitalization, Theoretical Debates and Inspiration (2019)
Journal Article

As one of most pivotal themes in trade union study within the western world, the debate upon union revitalization continues for a long time. On the basis of reviewing classic English literature, the paper summarizes three core issues in discussion, n... Read More about Why Do Trade Unions Revitalize? The Study on Union Revitalization, Theoretical Debates and Inspiration.

BRICS summit in Johannesburg: here’s what the five countries are looking for (2018)
Digital Artefact

Book review: Eli Fridman, Zhongjin Li and Hao Ren (eds), China on strike: Narratives of workers’ resistance (2018)
Journal Article

Book review

Dockworkers’ Resistance and Union Reform within China’s Globalised Seaport Industry (2017)
Book Chapter

This study examines the prominent 2013 Yantian dock strike in China and analyses the main factors contributing to the dockers’ successful campaign. It finds that the dockers’ capacity to take strike action mainly derives from their bargaining power,... Read More about Dockworkers’ Resistance and Union Reform within China’s Globalised Seaport Industry.

Book Review China at Work: A labour process perspective on the transformation of work and employment in China (2016)
Journal Article

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Dockworkers’ resistance and union reform within China’s globalised seaport industry (2016)
Journal Article

This study examines the prominent 2013 Yantian dock strike in China and analyses the main factors contributing to the dockers’ successful campaign. It finds that the dockers’ capacity to take strike action mainly derives from their bargaining power,... Read More about Dockworkers’ resistance and union reform within China’s globalised seaport industry.

Organizational Misbehavior and Management Control in China’s Public Hospitals: Doctors’ Red Packets (2015)
Journal Article

This paper investigates Chinese doctors’ informal payment, known as red packets, with reference to the debate on organizational misbehavior, fiddles and control. It aims to examine the internal and external factors that have contributed to the emerge... Read More about Organizational Misbehavior and Management Control in China’s Public Hospitals: Doctors’ Red Packets.

A strike of ‘unorganised’ workers in a Chinese car factory: the Nanhai Honda events of 2010 (2015)
Journal Article

This strike in a Chinese factory of the Japanese multinational Honda in 2010 received worldwide coverage. A young workforce sustained an on–off strike, with varying numbers of workers involved, for 19 days. Academic interest has focused on prospects... Read More about A strike of ‘unorganised’ workers in a Chinese car factory: the Nanhai Honda events of 2010.

Submerged discontent and patterns of accommodation: a case study of doctors' pay in two public hospitals in China: Chinese hospital doctors' discontent over pay (2013)
Journal Article

The article evaluates submerged discontent among Chinese public hospital doctors (Note1) regarding their pay and patterns of accommodation, including doctors' responses through formal and informal actions in the context of health service marketizatio... Read More about Submerged discontent and patterns of accommodation: a case study of doctors' pay in two public hospitals in China: Chinese hospital doctors' discontent over pay.

Book review: Anita Chan (ed.), Walmart in China (2013)
Journal Article