Human Resource Management in Multinational Corporations in and from China                                   

Special issue of Human Resource Management edited by Mingwei Liu, Chao C. Chen, Fang Lee Cooke, and Leigh Anne Liu

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This special issue seeks to examine issues related to a range of strategic and functional areas of HRM and IR. Professor Mingwei Liu served as a special guest editor of the journal and organized a conference to further probe this topic.

Full citation:

Liu, Mingwei, Chao C. Chen, Fang Lee Cooke, and Leigh Anne Liu, eds. 2019. Human Resource Management in Multinational Corporations in and from China. Special issue of Human Resource Management 58(5): 451-561.

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Table of Contents

Fang Lee Cooke, Mingwei Liu, Leigh Anne Liu & Chao C. Chen, “Human resource management and industrial relations in multinational corporations in and from China: Challenges and new insights” (455-471)

Zaheer Khan, Geoffrey Wood, Shlomo Y. Tarba, Rekha Rao-Nicholson & Shaowei He, “Human resource management in Chinese multinationals in the United Kingdom: The interplay of institutions, culture, and strategic choice” (473-487)

Yu Zheng & Chris Smith, “Tiered expatriation: A social relations approach to staffing multinationals” (489-502)

Marina Latukha & Anna Veselova, “Talent management, absorptive capacity, and firm performance: Does it work in China and Russia?” (503-519)

Yuhua Xie & Fang Lee Cooke, “Quality and cost? The evolution of Walmart's business strategy and human resource policies and practices in China and their impact (1996–2017)” (521-541)

Can Ouyang, Mingwei Liu, Yan Chen, Ji Li & Weiping Qin, “Overcoming liabilities of origin: Human resource management localization of Chinese multinational corporations in developed markets” (543-561)