Myths about doing business in China

Chee, Harold; West, Chris

doi:10.1057/9780230508866

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“…There is a substantial body of leadership literature that supports some of our participants' assumptions and that argues that culture is one of the most prominent factors that have an impact on defining 'the array of preferred and acceptable leader behaviours' (Cullen 1999: 527; see also Guirdham 2005;Chee & West 2004;House et al 2004). The main argument of this literature is that different expectations about appropriate ways of doing leadership are often linked to culture-specific values, and as a consequence, notions of 'effective' leadership vary considerably across cultures.…”

Section: Sharing Decision Making Powermentioning

confidence: 75%

“…An autocratic leadership style refers to ways of doing leadership in which the leader keeps control over decision making processes and makes decisions almost unilaterally without encouraging subordinates' contribution; such ways of doing leadership have often been associated with the Chinese culture (e.g. Cullen 1999; Chee & West 2004). A democratic leadership style, on the other hand, describes leaders who distribute the responsibility (e.g.…”

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‘you have to be adaptable, obviously’

Schnurr¹,

Zayts²

2022

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In spite of the increasing globalisation of the work domain and the mobilization of the workforce (Wong et al. 2007) only very little attention has been paid to the interplay between culture and professional identities in workplace contexts. This paper addresses this gap by exploring some of the ways through which professionals are required to construct and negotiate their various identities in increasingly multicultural contexts where notions of culture may become particularly salient.We focus on multicultural workplaces where, we believe, the intricate and complex relationship between culture and identity is particularly well reflected: In these contexts members are on a daily basis exposed to culture-specific perceptions, assumptions, expectations, and practices which may ultimately be reflected in workplace communication, and which impact on how professional identities are constructed.Drawing on a corpus of more than 80 hours of authentic workplace discourse and follow-up interviews conducted with professionals we explore how expatriates who work in Hong Kong with a team of local Chinese construct, negotiate and combine aspects of their professional and cultural identities in their workplace discourse. Our particular focus is on two issues that have been identified in participants' interviews: Sharing decision making responsibilities and negotiating a work-life balance. Our analysis of these two aspects illustrates the complex processes of identity construction from two different but complementary perspectives: i) the ways in which participants portray themselves as adapting to, negotiating or rejecting the new culture in which they work and live; and ii) the ways in which these perceived identity construction processes are actually reflected in participants' workplace discourse.

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‘you have to be adaptable, obviously’

Schnurr¹,

Zayts²

2022

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“…the husband to stay at home' (line 32), she categorically rules out this alternative way of sharing roles in the family. She further strengthens her argument by making reference to her husband's sociocultural background which is often described as patriarchal (Chee & West, 2004;Cullen, 1999;Ladegaard, 2012;Lee, 2004;Schnurr & Zayts, 2017): 'he is Mainland Chinese and it's just not done' (lines 35 and 36). Through these references to abstract norms and expectations, and by using the passive voice when making these claims, together with the pragmatic particle 'just', our interviewee constructs them as naturalized, taken for granted and unchangeable.…”

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‘It's not acceptable for the husband to stay at home': Taking a discourse analytical approach to capture the gendering of work

Schnurr

Zayts

Schröeder

et al. 2019

Gender Work & Organization

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This article illustrates some of the ways in which the notion of (paid) work is actively being gendered, and how these gendering processes take place not only through organizational practices but also in discourses that circulate outside an organization in the private domain. Drawing on 15 in‐depth interviews with women who opted out of their own professional career in order to accompany their husbands on their overseas work assignment to Hong Kong, we demonstrate some of the benefits of using a discourse analytical approach to capturing and identifying the processes through which these women actively (although not necessarily consciously) gender the notion of work, thereby reinforcing the gender order and its male bias. We argue that identifying and making visible these gendered and gendering practices is an important component of, and a potential trigger for, change both in organizations as well as private contexts.

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“…The emotions are about dignity and dignity's enemy, shame. This polarity runs deep in the lives of Chinese people 36 .…”

Section: Overview Of Portrait Rights In Chinamentioning

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Bruce Lee’s Case: Intellectual Property vs. Free Access to Culture and Protection of Public Interest

Łągiewska

Zeidler

2020

AFPiFS

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This article provides a comprehensive analysis of Bruce Lee’s case by presenting the intellectual property rights mechanisms in the People’s Republic of China. The aim of this paper is to bring attention to the trademark law as well as to shed new light on infringements of personality rights, in particular portrait rights, in trademarks. This begs the question as to what kind of legal action should be undertaken by Bruce Lee’s heiress to protect her rights. Moreover, the article touches upon the conflict between the public interest and trademarks and tries to answer the question how to balance private holders’ rights with the public interest. In order to provide some hypothetical scenarios, the study focuses primarily on Bruce Lee’s case background and the new amendments to trademark law in China, bringing the authors to final deliberations on Bruce Lee as part of modern culture belonging to mankind as a whole. Therefore, our research aims to find a solution to the challenging problem of reconciling intellectual property rights protection mechanisms with the common cultural heritage.

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Myths about doing business in China

Cited by 9 publications

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‘you have to be adaptable, obviously’

‘you have to be adaptable, obviously’

‘It's not acceptable for the husband to stay at home': Taking a discourse analytical approach to capture the gendering of work

Bruce Lee’s Case: Intellectual Property vs. Free Access to Culture and Protection of Public Interest

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