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China's 30-year market transition and its integration into the
world economy provide a unique opportunity for exploring the nature
of large-scale economic and political transformation and the
mechanisms underlying organizational behavior during such a
transition. Management and Organizations in Transitional China
explores how managers and firms cope with transition-related
challenges by adapting to, manipulating, or even creating the
complex institutional environment. This book examines the way
transitional institutions shape individual decisions and
organizational strategies, the mechanisms that promote the
diffusion of innovative management practices and economic policies,
and the formation and evolution of interfirm networks. Based on a
comprehensive review of the studies on market transition, this book
investigates how firms manage their relationship with important
stakeholders in the environment. It highlights the importance of
network-based strategies for institutionally less-advantaged actors
(like private firms, foreign entrants, and entrepreneurs) to
establish legitimacy, gain institutional support, and mobilize
financial resources. Moreover, this book studies the mechanisms
that facilitate the adoption of innovative management practices and
economic policies in the transitional context, comparing the
mainstream diffusion theories and evaluating the relative potency
of the diffusion drivers. Furthermore, Management and Organizations
in Transitional China provides empirical analyses using
longitudinal data of alliance formation, network evolution, and the
effect of both alliance formation and network evolution on firm
decision-making and performance. Combining theory, data analysis,
and rich contextual description to provide a comprehensive
understanding of the organizational transition process, this book
will appeal to scholars and practitioners in general management,
organizational studies, international business, entrepreneurship,
and related disciplines.
China's 30-year market transition and its integration into the
world economy provide a unique opportunity for exploring the nature
of large-scale economic and political transformation and the
mechanisms underlying organizational behavior during such a
transition. Management and Organizations in Transitional China
explores how managers and firms cope with transition-related
challenges by adapting to, manipulating, or even creating the
complex institutional environment. This book examines the way
transitional institutions shape individual decisions and
organizational strategies, the mechanisms that promote the
diffusion of innovative management practices and economic policies,
and the formation and evolution of interfirm networks. Based on a
comprehensive review of the studies on market transition, this book
investigates how firms manage their relationship with important
stakeholders in the environment. It highlights the importance of
network-based strategies for institutionally less-advantaged actors
(like private firms, foreign entrants, and entrepreneurs) to
establish legitimacy, gain institutional support, and mobilize
financial resources. Moreover, this book studies the mechanisms
that facilitate the adoption of innovative management practices and
economic policies in the transitional context, comparing the
mainstream diffusion theories and evaluating the relative potency
of the diffusion drivers. Furthermore, Management and Organizations
in Transitional China provides empirical analyses using
longitudinal data of alliance formation, network evolution, and the
effect of both alliance formation and network evolution on firm
decision-making and performance. Combining theory, data analysis,
and rich contextual description to provide a comprehensive
understanding of the organizational transition process, this book
will appeal to scholars and practitioners in general management,
organizational studies, international business, entrepreneurship,
and related disciplines.
This second of two companion volumes places the labor markets,
workplaces, jobs and workers of Europe in comparative perspective.
It focuses on the politics, economics, sociology, and history of
work and workers in Europe. It contains both qualitative and
quantitative studies as well as explicitly theoretical work, and
compares contemporary patterns and the recent history of European
workers with other models of work worldwide. Authors contribute a
variety of methodological and theoretical perspectives, with papers
that push the boundaries of evidence and argument. Specific topics
in "Comparing European Workers Volume 2: Policies and Institutions"
include: the political economy of active social policy in
postindustrial democracies; social protection dualism,
deindustrialization and cost containment; organized labor in
Europe; and, unionization in East European ex-communist countries.
It asks such questions as 'does European-style welfare generosity
discourage single mother employment?', 'whose interests do unions
represent?' and 'are trade unions still redistributive?'.
This first of two companion volumes places the labor markets,
workplaces, jobs and workers of Europe in comparative perspective.
It focuses on the politics, economics, sociology, and history of
work and workers in Europe. Authors contribute a variety of
methodological and theoretical perspectives, with papers that push
the boundaries of evidence and argument. In order to place European
workers in comparative perspectives, the volume features articles
that analyze specific European countries, industries and firms,
analyze Europe as one of a few cases, and analyze many European
countries within a cross-national sample. Specific topics in
'Comparing European Workers Volume 1: Experiences and Inequalities'
include: a multilevel study of perceived job insecurity in 27
European countries; work values and job rewards among European
workers; explaining cross-national variation in wage inequality;
managerial intensity and earnings inequality in affluent
democracies; cross-national patterns in individual and household
employment and work hours by gender and parenthood; and domestic
and international causes of the rise of pay inequality in OECD
nations.
In this volume, we examine how the institutional environment
affects entrepreneurial organizations, and vice-versa. This
includes not only how the institutional environment constrains both
founding processes and the type of organizations founded, but also
how institutional dynamics construct new entrepreneurial
opportunities, empower and facilitate action, and how entrepreneurs
manipulate the institutional environment to serve their own ends.
This institutional approach to entrepreneurship shifts attention
away from the personal traits and backgrounds of individual
entrepreneurs, and towards how institutions shape entrepreneurial
opportunities and actions; how entrepreneurs navigate their
cognitive, normative, and regulatory environments; and, how actors
modify and build institutions to support new types of
organizations.
Thirty years of economic change have fundamentally altered the
nature of organizations and work in China. This volume brings
together current research by many of the top scholars studying
these issues and provides a glimpse into the state of thinking on
organizations and work at the start of the fourth decade of
transition. The topics covered include the continued transition of
State Owned Enterprises, the emergence of asset management
companies, the adoption of innovative labor structures, connections
between organizational processes and worker outcomes, the changing
use of networks in job search, and role of work and work units in
creating and maintaining inequality.
Work behaviours and inequality in work-based rewards are essential
to financial security and general well-being. Although the benefits
of receiving work-based rewards, such as income, benefits and
retirement packages, are significant, they are not enjoyed
uniformly. Scholars have invested considerable resources in
studying the processes that lead to differential work outcomes, and
we know a considerable amount about what places people in the
distributions of income and wealth. However, religion is a critical
determinant of these outcomes that has attracted little attention.
It seems logical that a person's general approach to the world -
their religious beliefs or cultural orientation - would be an
important determinant of their wealth. After all, the things we
consider important and our operating assumptions about how the
world does work and how it should work are certain to affect the
goals we pursue, our decisions about critical life events, and,
ultimately, how well-off we are. This volume brings together major
thinkers in the field of religion, work and inequality to explore
current research and to articulate an agenda for better
understanding these essential social processes.
This volume features sociological research and theory on gender and
sexuality in the workplace, and identifies how organizations can
achieve a gender-balanced and sexually-diverse work force. While
identifying characteristics of work organizations that have made
important strides to achieving equality in the workplace, articles
also detail how women and sexual minorities continue to face
discrimination, harassment, and exclusion. Special attention is
paid to how race and class shape the experience of discrimination
for these groups. Topics discussed are wide-ranging and include:
gender discrimination and the wage gap; sexual minorities (LGBT
workers); homophobic and 'gay friendly' workplaces; sexual
harassment; sex in the workplace; sex work and sex workers; gender
equity policies; transgender workers; men and women in
non-traditional jobs; occupational gender segregation; and, gender
difference in work hours. "The Research in the Sociology of Work"
series is proud to publish the works of new and established
scholars on these important topics, including both quantitative and
qualitative studies, as well as review essays that set the agenda
for future sociological analysis.
Entrepreneurship, the creation of new economic entities, is central
to the structure and functioning of organizations and economies.
New business formation also shapes the nature of social and
economic stratification in an economy and may be an important
vehicle for social mobility. The papers in this volume explore many
of the issues that are central to the study of entrepreneurship
today and also break new ground in the field. The papers explore
the importance of entrepreneurship, the process by which
entrepreneurship occurs, and the way both meaning and process vary
with context and opportunity structures. These papers address
long-standing controversies in the study of entrepreneurship, and
they also identify new, innovative questions and approaches. As a
result, both seasoned entrepreneurship researchers and those who
are new to the field will find the papers interesting and useful.
Research in the Sociology of Work is now available online at
ScienceDirect full-text online of volumes 10 onwards.
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