China calling: a foot in the global door
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| Beschreibung: | XIX, 236 S. |
| ISBN: | 0230210198 9780230210196 |
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| adam_text | Preface xi
Acknowledgments xv
List of figures and tables xix
Introduction 1
Part I: General perspectives on change
Introduction 5
Executive summary 7
Chapter 1: Convergence and divergence 9
Crossvergence 10
Chapter 2: Decision making and problem solving 13
The nature of the process 14
A shift to the West 16
A dynamic system 18
Chapter 3: Imitation and innovation 20
A sincere form of strategy 21
Imitate to survive 22
Chapter 4: Paradigms and worldviews 23
Living in the past 24
Have faith 24
Chapter 5: Strategic shock 26
Bounded rationality 26
Cusp catastrophe 27
Stamina wins 28
Imitation rules, probably 28
Chapter 6: National strategies 30
Change and control 30
Opportunistic behaviour 31
Approaches to time 32
vi Contents
China moves centre stage 33
Three dimensions 34
Chapter 7: Chinese practice and Western theory 36
Strategy from culture 37
A base of resources 37
Controlling transactions 38
Now we know guanxi 38
Keep your options open 39
A common set of laws 40
Summary and discussion 42
Three key functions 43
Greed and guanxi 45
Part II: Chinese explanatory perspectives
Introduction 47
Executive summary 52
Chapter 8: Transvergence 55
Measurement is not management - financial transvergence 56
Management is not measurement 58
Parallel lines converge only at infinity 61
Chapter 9: Induction or deduction 64
The elusive fluency of real dialogue 66
A relational redeployment of assets - renqing 66
Big problems come from lots of little problems - so why not fix the
little ones first? 68
The truth and nothing but the truth 70
A knack by any other name 70
Chapter 10: Adaptation 73
The best in the West may be least in the East 75
Surprise, surprise 76
Break glass in emergency only 77
A nation torn in half 78
Holding the centre 79
Fiction and fact 81
Proceed feast for orders 83
Meeting halfway 85
Totalitarianism or communism 86
Contents vii
Chapter 11: Chinese reality 88
Democracy for a gerontocracy 90
China rising - peacefully 91
The changing reality 92
The 4 Cs 94
Trust and trustworthiness 95
Now that all the barbarians are within our gates 97
Or how to maintain a well-concealed sense of the ridiculous 98
A silk purse from a sow s ear 99
Opening the little red book 99
Commissioned navvies on the march 100
Uniformly negative limits 101
The wretchedness at the heart of things - disease and pollution 102
The air stinks and the dust settles everywhere in Beijing 104
Culture and society - a home truth 105
Chapter 12: Harmony and people 106
An agreement to agree on detail later 107
HRM - one human does not a resource make 108
A philosopher, a sage, not a warlord nor a high priest 108
A modern promise of prosperity, but with a catch 110
A double of the other gender 111
Imported provision for the afterlife 112
Alternative lifestyles 113
How to make work play and play work 113
Keeping the ill-wind away 114
Chinese man s most important commodity 115
Linguistic mountain-crossing demands adverbal tensing 117
Becoming your own alter ego 118
The world s most-spoken secret language - clues to breaking the code 118
The Chinese reckon in millennia 121
San shi liu ji — zou wei shangji 121
Values are the mainspring 122
Chapter 13: Beyond control 124
Western leaders are trained in the West, but Chinese leaders are also
trained in the West 124
The transfer of information - a Chinese intranet 125
Open plan problem solving 126
Meaning from form 127
Ringing the changes 127
Guanxi - not a provincial but a global network 128
The relationship matters 130
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There are no short cuts, but your reputation will precede you 131
Tenets and beliefs to live and die for 132
MBA (Marketing By Asia) 132
Chapter 14: Chinese strategy 134
Opportunism is costly to control 135
How much is an investment worth? 136
Recommendations 137
Spanning the boundaries 13 8
Human obligations or manipulative methods? 139
Summary and discussion 140
Part III: Chinese predictive perspectives
Introduction 143
Out of China 144
Tapping into the Asian source 145
The surplus - silver mountains of the mind 146
The other great Asian giant 147
More BRICs in the wall 149
Executive summary 151
Chapter 15: National controls 153
The past is the future China 154
The future Asian nightmare 155
Chapter 16: Strategic controls 159
Local inroads and responsiveness 160
Petulance or power 162
Here comes the judge 163
Feeling the stones 163
Chapter 17: Modern Chinese management 165
Stakeholders 167
Mutation in major national characteristics 168
The meeting of the waters 170
Ring out the changes 174
Implications for organizational structures 176
Strategic implementation - political implications 176
The individual but collectivist Chinese manager 177
International adaptation and interpretation 179
The bubble that tries hard not to burst 180
Brain gain rather than brain drain 182
Contents ix
Chapter 18: ChinaTech 185
The thrust of technology and innovation - overtaking the West or
replacing the Soviets? 186
By their brands ye shall know them 188
Chapter 19: Qu xiang he fang? 190
Westward Ho! 191
Chapter 20: Unpredictable conclusion 196
Going global - spurred by WTO entry in 2001 197
The Olympic effect - brake or booster? 199
In conclusion? 200
Summary and discussion 203
Superpower? 204
A probable conclusion 205
Organizational competitive advantage 205
A final discussion 207
In closing 211
Postscript 214
References 215
Parti 215
Part II 218
Part III 221
Glossary 223
General references 229
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