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In Search of the Roots of 'Human Resource Management' in the Chinese Workplace

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  • Ronald Busse

    (Fresenius University of Applied Sciences
    Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge
    Nanjing University)

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The main thrust of this article is to trace the roots of US-driven 'Human Resource Management' (HRM) school of thought which now become widely institutionalized in China, up to the present day. It examines the diffusion of management knowledge over the period to Chinese business, which involved in turn, Scientific Management (SM), Human Relations (HR) and Human Resource Management (HRM) respectively, from the interwar years onwards, by using a bibliometric analysis of Chinese- language sources, searching a number of data-bases now available. We scanned the international, as well as Chinese, literature in order to support a conjecture of a HR route toward China and how it morphed into HRM and go on to conclude that there was by the end of the year 2015 still a significant output of academic publications with references to both HR and HRM respectively but that we must be cautious in putting forward a firm conclusion.

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  • Ronald Busse, 2016. "In Search of the Roots of 'Human Resource Management' in the Chinese Workplace," Working Papers 2016/02, Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.
    • Handle: RePEc:jbs:wpaper:201602
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