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The Past and the Future of Employee Voice: Shenzhen's High Technology Industry

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  • Denise Tsang

    (Henley Business School, University of Reading)

  • Zhang Yan

    (School of Economics, Shandong University P.R. China)

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Can a nation's technology future be linked to its past? This article discusses employee voice, as defined in terms of discretionary and constructive behaviour that challenge the status quo, within the innovative, fast growing high technology industry in China. It provides insight into factors shaping employee voice in this under-researched knowledge-intensive sector of China that has emerged rapidly since the economic reform. It suggests the notion of employee voice among the highly skilled knowledge workforce can only be understood in terms of technological convergence and cultural divergence.

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  • Denise Tsang & Zhang Yan, 2018. "The Past and the Future of Employee Voice: Shenzhen's High Technology Industry," John H Dunning Centre for International Business Discussion Papers jhd-dp2018-05, Henley Business School, University of Reading.
    • Handle: RePEc:rdg:jhdxdp:jhd-dp2018-05
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    1. Denise Tsang, 2017. "Industrial Democracy in the Chinese Aerospace Industry," Palgrave Macmillan Books, Palgrave Macmillan, number 978-1-137-58023-8.
    2. Dr Alex Bryson, 2012. "Employee Voice: A Transaction Costs Perspective," National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) Discussion Papers 399, National Institute of Economic and Social Research.
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      Keywords

      employee voice; high technology; cultural divergency; Shenzhen;
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      JEL classification:

      • J59 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - Other
      • L69 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Manufacturing - - - Other
      • M12 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - Personnel Management; Executives; Executive Compensation
      • N35 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy - - - Asia including Middle East
      • N95 - Economic History - - Regional and Urban History - - - Asia including Middle East
      • O43 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Institutions and Growth

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