Gamble, Jos and Huang, Qihai (2007) Flexible employment with Chinese characteristics : a retail sector case study. In: Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Academy of International Business. UNSPECIFIED, pp. 90-91.
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This paper, based on in-depth ethnographic research conducted in a foreign invested retail firm in China, indicates that the core-periphery model of ‘flexible work’ is insufficient to capture the complexity of employment arrangements in this context. Instead, we present a quadrilateral relationship with overlapping and often competing interests. The co-existence of two employment systems has implications for employee commitment and performance and, in turn, customer service and management.
| Item Type: | Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings |
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| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
| Departments: | Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences > Linguistics & English Language |
| ID Code: | 58747 |
| Deposited By: | ep_importer_pure |
| Deposited On: | 01 Oct 2012 14:09 |
| Refereed?: | No |
| Published?: | Published |
| Last Modified: | 01 Oct 2012 14:09 |
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| URI: | http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/58747 |
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