Articles Background The modernization of China’s system and capacity for governance that China has promoted in recent years could be understood as China trying to reform its state governance. Purpose This article investigates the characteristics of the basic structure of China’s state governance model since the reform and opening up. Read more
Articles Abstract China has experienced an incredible rate of growth in recent decades. According to the April 2015 issue of the IMF World Economic Outlook database, China’s GDP based on current prices has grown from about USD 0.31 trillion in 1980 to USD 10.38 trillion in 2014. China’s share of the world’s Read more
Articles Abstract This issue presents five articles that focus on firm performance in efficiency and mobile industry and the development of China in terms of new market and new relationship. The first article, “How does CEO Power Affect Innovation Efficiency?” by Peng-hua Qiao and Anna Fung examines the effects of Read more
Articles Abstract Knowledge Management Research and Practice (KMRP) is a reputed international journal in the field of knowledge management. Motivated by the stature of the journal, this study aims to analyse the journal’s impact, prominent themes, and frequently contributing authors and their affiliated institutions and countries using bibliometric analysis. Network analysis Read more
Articles Abstract Human capital is an important construct in a variety of fields spanning from micro scholarship in psychology to macro scholarship in economics. Within the various disciplinary perspectives, research focuses on slightly different aspects and levels of human capital within organizations, which may give opportunities for integration. The current Read more
Articles Abstract Since the 1990s, there have been hundreds of conceptual and empirical articles investigating the relationship between Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM) and performance. To this end, scholars have studied the role of the HR function, ‘fit’ between SHRM, and a range of contextual factors which include the external Read more
Articles Abstract Human resource management (HRM) has paid insufficient attention to the impact of context. In this article, we outline the need for HRM to take full account of context, particularly national context, and to use both cultural theories and, particularly, institutional theories to do that. We use research publications Read more
Articles Abstract Scholars are directing more attention to employee perceptions of human resources (HR) practices and have explored issues such as whether and how employees’ idiosyncratic or collective perceptions of HR practices shape employee outcomes. To further this area of research, we seek to determine what authors mean when they Read more
Articles Abstract In a fast changing and fast-paced global workplace, where maintaining competitive advantage is paramount to success, identifying ways of sustaining employee well-being is of increasing importance to a range of stakeholders, both within the context of work and beyond. Within the workplace, well-being is important not only to Read more
Articles Abstract HRM refers to how employees are managed and one of the main functions of this discipline is the role of ‘employee champion’ (Ulrich 1997), however, this role has changed significantly in the public sector over the past two decades, especially for professionals. Professionals differ from other types of employees Read more