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Stream 1: Collective Action in the New Global Economy 

  • Søren Kaj Andersen (University of Copenhagen), Christian Lyhne Ibsen and Jon Erik Dølvik, “The Complexities of Stability – How and Why Nordic Employers Stay Put”
  • Anita Chan (Australian National University),“Comparing Regular and Agency Workers’ Working Conditions, Attitudes and Resistance: a Case Study of Chinese Auto Joint Ventures”
  • Hui Xu, Sabrina Zajak and Chris K.C. Chan (City University of Hong Kong), “Transformation of Labor Relations and Transnational Solidarity in China”
  • Ken Dubin (Anglia Ruskin University) and Tobias Schulze-Cleven, “The Politics of Labor Market Dualization: Spanish and German Lessons from the Great Recession”
  • Yujeong Yang and Mary Gallagher (University of Michigan), “Moving In and Moving Up? Labor Conditions and China’s Changing Development Model”
  • Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick (Birkbeck), “The ITUC and the Challenge of China”
  • Thomas Haipeter (University of Duisburg-Essen), “Interests and Interest Representation of White Collar Workers”
  • Aaron Halegua (New York Univ.), “Government-Sponsored Legal Aid and the Role of Labor NGOs in China: A Story of Displacement?”  
  • Elaine Sio Ieng Hui (Penn State University), “Understanding the Role of Extra-Union Actors in Worker Collective Actions in China”
  • William Hurst (Northwestern University), “Second Image, Un-reversed, of 2008: China’s New Economic Slowdown and the Politics of Labor”
  • Richard Hyman (LSE), “Old and New Actors in Employee Representation: Rivals or Allies?”
  • Chunyun Li (LSE), “Cultures of Pragmatism? Pragmatic Chinese Worker Protest Leaders”
  • Nelson Lichtenstein (UC Santa Barbara), “The Demise of Tripartite Governance and the Rise of the Corporate Social Responsibility Regime”
  • Kevin Lin (University of Technology Sydney), “Striking Strategies in Chinese Workers’ Collective Actions” 
  • Jamie McCallum (Middlebury College) and Marissa Brookes, “Labor Beyond Borders: A Critical Review of The New Global Labor Studies”
  • Immanuel Ness (City Univ. of New York) “Collective Action in Global Logistics”
  • Steen Nvrbjerg (University of Copenhagen) and Trine Larsen, “The Effects of Union Mergers and Restructuring: A Bottom-up Perspective by Danish Shop Stewards”
  • Jonas Aissi and Rafael Peels (ILO), “Involving Workers' and Employers in Trade Policy: The Cases of TTIP and TPP”
  • Sid Rothstein (University of Pennsylvania), “How Neoliberalism Works: Eroding Workers’ Strategies to Regulate Employer Discretion”
  • Stefan Schmalz (University of Jena) and Marcel Thiel, “IG Metall’s Comeback: A Power Resource Perspective”
  • Dorothy J. Solinger (UC Irvine), “State Gains, Labor Losses: China, France, Mexico, and East Europe in Comparison”
  • Maite Tapia (Michigan State University) and Mikhail Filipovitch “The End of Solidarity? Says Who? Four Cases of Solidarity and Power through Collective Action” 
  • Mark Vail (Tulane University), “From Liberalism to Liberalization in Germany and France”
  • Xiaoyu Huang, Lihua Zhang, Anil Verma (University of Toronto), Wei Huang and Jinqiang Zhu, “Settling Strikes in China: the Role of Proactive HRM Practices”

Stream 2: Foreign MNCs in China and Chinese MNCSs Abroad

  • Frithjof Arp (University of Nottingham), “Knowledge Transfer and Absorption: The Role of Support for Geocentric HRM at Different Organizational Hierarchy Levels in the Headquarters of Chinese Firms”
  • Yan Chen (Rutgers University), Mingwei Liu and Can Ouyang, “Testing the Institutional Theory: Sources of Isomorphic Pressures and Localization of Human Resource Management in U.S. Subsidiaries of Chinese Multinational Companies”
  • Ying Chen and Yun-Kyoung Kim (UIUC), “The Antecedents of Propensity to Strike in MNCs-based in China: A Relational Perspective”
  • Yanyuan Cheng (Renmin University), Jiaojiao Feng and Fuxi Wang, “The Factors that Impact Motivations of Bank of China Expatriates and its relevant HR Policy: A Case Study of the Bank of China”
  • Sunwook Chung (Sogang University) and Sunghoon Kim (UNSW), “Localization is a Journey: Korean MNC’s Human Resources Localization in China”
  • Fang Lee Cooke (Monash University) and Yuhua Xie, “From Quality to Cost? The Evolution of Walmart’s Human Resource Practices in China and its Impact on Industrial Relations (1996-2015)”
  • Tony Fang (Memorial University), Ying Ge and Youqing Fan, “The Cooperative Roles of Chinese Unions in Multinational Corporations”
  • Jie Feng (Rutgers University), Xu Jiang, and Emily Rosado-Solomon, “Entrepreneurial Orientation, Patterns of HRM Practices and Firm Performance: Evidence from Domestically Owned Companies and Multinational Corporations in China” 
  • Jing Betty Feng (Farmingdale State College) and Leigh Anne Liu (Georgia State University), “Multilevel Cultural Fit and Employees Engagement a Multiple-Case Study of Chinese Firms Operating in the United States”
  • Xiaoyu (Sherry) Guan and Steve Frenkel (UNSW), “Managing Labor Standards in China: An Exploratory Analysis”
  • Natalie Koeppe (Toulouse Business School), and Akram Al Ariss, “Talent Management Strategies of German MNCs in China: A Study of Headquarters-Subsidiary Relations”
  • Christian Lévesque (HEC Montréal) and Hu Hao “Employment Relations Institutions in Transition within MNCs: A Comparative Study of China and Mexico”
  • Can Ouyang (Cornell University) and Mingwei Liu, “Localization of Chinese MNCs in the U.S.: Strategic Objectives of Internationalization, Home-Country Resource Dependency, and Liability of Origin”
  • Shih-Wei Pan (Chinese Culture University) “Politics of Corporate Social Responsibility and Industrial Relations of Taiwanese Manufacturers in China: Trapped between Brands, NGOs and the State”
  • Lisa Qixun Siebers (Nottingham Trent University), “HRM Practices of Chinese Firms in Eastern and Southern Africa: Cases of Kenya, Zambia, and South Africa”
  • Zaheer Khan, Rekha Rao-Nicholson, Shlomo Y. Tarba (University of Birmingham), and Geoffrey Wood, “HRM Practices of Chinese MNCs in Developed Markets: Standardization versus Adaptation Debate Revisited”
  • Yongqian Tu (Renmin University), “HRM Revolution of Chinese MNCs: Case Studies of Huawei and Haier”
  • Ramsin Yakob (University of Gothenburg), “Fostering Local Managerial Capacity in China: HRM, Matched‐Pairs, and Knowledge‐Collectivities.”
  • Yu Zheng and Chris Smith (University of London), “Tiered Expatriation: Overturning the Orthodoxy on Expatriate Use through the Case of Chinese MNCs”