Purpose‐The purpose of this article is to emphasise the development, importance and
pressures on the under-researched area of Chinese small and medium-sized enterprises …

The objective of this study is to explore the changing nature of people management on the
under-researched area of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in China. A mix of …

As the importance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has increased, it has been
accompanied by an increase in the amount of research attention paid to them. This has …

This quantitative study examines the role of five contingency factors,–that is, firm size, sector,
location, firm age, and presence of an human resource (HR) department–in formalizing …

With all the cacophony of comment on China's rapid economic development and the
emergence of its large firms, the important role of small businesses has received less …

Over the past two decades, there has been a proliferation of research on human resource
management (HRM) in Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) as a result of the wide …

In response to cultural and economic changes, human resource practitioners can potentially
play a role of balancing tensions in the organization. A future perspective of new roles and …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the field of human resource
management (HRM) in China, with insights drawn from recent times to several millennia …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to show how understanding of human resource (HR)
management practices which have been adopted in the emerging markets such as that in …

The paper advances understanding of the conceptual and definitional difficulties confronting
human resource management as an emergent field. It then raises the seminal question as to …