Building innovative organizations in China: The “execution+” organization

Ming, Gu; Tse, Edison

doi:10.1007/s10490-008-9115-2

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“…Regarding business success in China, Zhang, Dolan, Lingham, and Altman (2009) conducted a comparative case study and attempted to find useful strategic international human resource management practices that facilitate the survival of Spanish firms in China. Gu and Tse (2010) focused on how to build innovative organizations in China. Redfern and Crawford (2010) investigated the influence of aspects of societal and economic modernization on the moral judgments of Chinese managers.…”

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Industrial, Work and Organizational Psychology in Asia

Chuang¹

2018

The SAGE Handbook of Industrial, Work and Organizational Psychology

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China being the most frequently referenced, and/or are not exclusively related to industrial, work, and organizational (IWO) psychology but also to business and strategy (Bruton & Lau, 2008;Jia et al., 2012;White, 2002). Those that review studies from multiple Asian countries focus either on a specific Asian region, such as South East Asia (Rowley & Warner, 2006;2010), or a specific topic such as human resource management change (Poon & Rowley, 2010), rewards (Wei & Rowley, 2009, or executive communication (Sun, Zhao, & Yang, 2010). The field of IWO psychology needs an inspection of extant research capturing a broader scope of both cultural settings and research topics in Asia. To this end, the current chapter reviews articles using Asian samples in 11 top-tier IWO journals, and contributes to this line of investigation in two ways.First, we report the most common topics and the most frequently used methodologies. Second, and more importantly, we delineate the extent to which the articles contextualize Asian phenomena. Contextualization can make great scholarly contributions by re-examining the assumptions embedded in existing theories and theorizing about the underlying contextual influences (e.g. Whetten, 2009), or by exploring new phenomena in an underappreciated context and developing novel theories about it (Barney & Zhang, 2009). Studying contextualization is increasingly important because the internationalization of scholarship challenges the transportability of existing social science models from one context to another (Rousseau & Fried, 2001). Thus, we focused our attention on IWO psychology articles that used Asian samples and were published in top journals within the past 10 years. The rationale for focusing on works from the past decade is that the review will identify the most recent advances in IWO psychology in Asia in relation to topics, methods, contributions, and contextualization, and it will offer the most relevant directions for future studies aiming at contextualizing Asian phenomena. As we intend to cover a broad range of IWO psychology research topics and to analyze the level of contextualization of each article, we do not attempt to consolidate findings on particular research topics. Likewise, it is not our goal to evaluate individual or institutional contributors, or to assess the impact of particular articles. Methods Literature SearchIn order to determine the array of leading IWO journals, we identified the top 15% of journals publishing in the categories of applied psychology, management, and business, according to the impact factor provided in the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) database. We excluded journals geared toward practitioners (e.g. Harvard Business Review), and those that publish only theoretical articles (e.g. Academy of Management Review). This resulted in a list of seven journals:

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Industrial, Work and Organizational Psychology in Asia

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2018

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“…Consequently, its firms have become more innovative (Perks et al, 2010;Wang et al, 2010;Xie and von Zedtwitz, 2010;Yip and McKern, 2014). Moreover, with the erosion in the cost advantage of Chinese manufacturing, more and more Chinese firms are aware of the need to develop innovation capabilities to be more competitive both in their domestic market and abroad (Gu and Tse, 2010;Hu and Jefferson, 2004;Yip and McKern, 2014). In addition, the Chinese government is providing incentives and support for innovation to firms in order to catch up with the developed world (Yip and McKern, 2014) and it has formulated a going global policy to encourage international expansion of Chinese firms in technology sectors (Buckley et al, 2007;Zhang et al, 2009) .…”

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Foreign Market Knowledge, Country Sales Breadth and Innovative Performance of Emerging Economy Firms

Williams

Colovic

Zhu

2016

Int. J. Innov. Mgt.

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The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. FOREIGN MARKET KNOWLEDGE, COUNTRY SALES BREADTH AND INNOVATIVE PERFORMANCE OF EMERGING ECONOMY FIRMS ABSTRACTWe examine the impact of foreign market knowledge on innovative performance in emerging economy firms. We also study how this relationship is moderated by country sales breadth, i.e., the diversity of countries in which the firm derives sales. We test two competing theoretical perspectives on this relationship: diversity logic suggesting country sales breadth is beneficial to innovative performance, and time compression diseconomies logic suggesting the opposite. Drawing from a sample of 92 Chinese firms, we show that foreign market knowledge has a positive impact on innovative performance, and that this relationship is positively moderated by country sales breadth. Our study suggests that managers in Chinese firms develop effective capabilities in accessing, integrating and utilizing foreign market knowledge from a breadth of international sources in their quest for innovation.

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The development of entrepreneurship in Chinese communities: An organizational symbiosis perspective

Young

Tang

2010

Asia Pac J Manag

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Why has the rate of entrepreneurship gone down in Singapore? Why is entrepreneurship in Southern China (e.g., Guangdong or Fujian provinces) relatively higher than the rest of China? Why is corruption rampant in some Chinese business communities but virtually nonexistent in others? Although we often speak of "Chinese entrepreneurship" as a monolithic entity, the fact is that there are many variants of Chinese entrepreneurship and these variants continue to rapidly evolve and take on new forms. Yet mainstream management theory has been at a loss to explain these high rates of variation and evolution. To shed light on these issues, we introduce the idea of symbiosis from biology and adapt it to the development of entrepreneurship in Chinese ethnic communities. Symbiosis is the science of how different organisms coexist with each other in a self-sustaining system. Using this approach, we develop six propositions to explain what types of entrepreneurship are likely to evolve in different Chinese ethnic communities and how this process of evolution is likely to proceed. The implications for researchers and practitioners are discussed.

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Building innovative organizations in China: The “execution+” organization

Abstract: Organizational innovation, Latecomer firm, China, Information and communication technology (ICT) industries,

Cited by 13 publications

References 66 publications

Industrial, Work and Organizational Psychology in Asia

Industrial, Work and Organizational Psychology in Asia

Foreign Market Knowledge, Country Sales Breadth and Innovative Performance of Emerging Economy Firms

The development of entrepreneurship in Chinese communities: An organizational symbiosis perspective

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