https://www.scmp.com/rss/324590/feed Professor Chris Rowley is a visiting fellow at Kellogg College, University of Oxford and professor emeritus, Bayes Business School, City, University of London. He is a leading figure in the study of employment and human resource management, and business and management in Asia. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com As the new year unfolds and people return to thoughts of work, it is an opportune time to look at what the Chinese workplace might have in store for them. The labour force is grappling with a problem of youth unemployment, including among university graduates. This workforce cohort is seemingly caught in a painful pincer movement. On one side they face economic changes and reduced demand for their labour and, on the other, there are social changes shaping new views on work and work... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/china-opinion/article/3293891/chinas-work-culture-must-change-give-young-people-hope-again?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/china-opinion/article/3293891/chinas-work-culture-must-change-give-young-people-hope-again?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 12 Jan 2025 01:30:07 +0000 China is facing a new and gradually building demographic dynamic – a decline in the number, and a shift in the nationalities, of expatriates in the country. As the number of expats from the West dwindles, they have been replaced to some extent with a growing number of expats from countries in the Global South. This changing mix has wider implications, not least for businesses in China itself and the West. Empirical studies show that migration and the presence of foreigners increases... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/china-opinion/article/3290097/chinas-dwindling-western-expat-workforce-should-be-cause-concern?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/china-opinion/article/3290097/chinas-dwindling-western-expat-workforce-should-be-cause-concern?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 12 Dec 2024 21:30:08 +0000 As another Covid-ravaged year winds down for a staggering global economy, it is timely to look at a positive event. This is the recent news from China that China Eastern Airlines has taken delivery in Shanghai of the very first indigenously developed and produced passenger jet airliner. The C919 from Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (Comac) is expected to go into commercial operation in the spring of 2023. This news is important for several reasons. First, it marks not only the start of... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3204691/chinas-first-home-grown-passenger-plane-c919-sets-its-economy-new-path?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3204691/chinas-first-home-grown-passenger-plane-c919-sets-its-economy-new-path?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 28 Dec 2022 08:30:09 +0000 Rapid change in innovative parts of several important traditional sectors is generating intense interest globally. For example, the financial services sector – especially its fintech component – and electric vehicles have captured the attention not only of business practitioners but also policymakers as they look at the high-quality jobs, exports and revenues to be gained. First, take the growth of fintech. The fixation on fintech is especially apparent in two of the traditional leading... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3154662/what-explains-chinas-growth-fintech-and-electric-vehicles?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3154662/what-explains-chinas-growth-fintech-and-electric-vehicles?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 03 Nov 2021 08:30:09 +0000 The immense size and velocity of China’s economic growth, output and achievements under paramount leader Deng Xiaoping’s reforms, coupled with state interventions, have been much commented on as China vies with the United States to be the largest economy in the world. Consider this: China used more cement (6.6 gigatons) between 2011 and 2013 than the US did in the entire 20th century (4.5 gigatons) and produced more steel in just two years (May 2017 to 2019) than Britain did in over 150 years.... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3050722/china-battles-coronavirus-prognosis-its-economy-poor-despite-silver?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3050722/china-battles-coronavirus-prognosis-its-economy-poor-despite-silver?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 16 Feb 2020 07:00:13 +0000 Will the latest G20 meeting in Japan turn out to be just another Groundhog Day with the same old platitudes by the same old elites? To prevent this, leaders must consider three factors during their meetings. First, the potential for, and occurrence of, deglobalisation, and its echoes in history. There have been several earlier “waves” of globalisation, including a succession of empires, the opening up of sea routes and the famed Silk Road. While Immanuel Wallerstein’s “world systems theory”... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3016109/globalisation-under-threat-g20-leaders-must-consider-three-factors?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3016109/globalisation-under-threat-g20-leaders-must-consider-three-factors?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 26 Jun 2019 19:00:17 +0000 The announcement a few days ago that Dyson – one of Britain’s leading, innovative and most successful businesses with annual sales of over £4 billion (US$5.25 billion) – was moving its head office from the UK to Singapore, was big news not only in the UK but throughout Asia. Dyson started producing vacuum cleaners in Chippenham in the UK in 1993 before moving to Malmesbury two years later. It invested millions in the site, tripling its UK workforce in the five years up to 2018, with 1,100... https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/2183680/brexit-debate-too-important-be-sidetracked-red-herring-dysons?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/2183680/brexit-debate-too-important-be-sidetracked-red-herring-dysons?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 27 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000 One of the most important events and turning points in Asian business over the previous 12 month was the sudden and dramatic downfall of a corporate giant and leadership superstar in the world’s third-biggest economy. This was the downfall of Carlos Ghosn in Japan. He was the architect and leading light of the two-decade old Renault-Nissan (and now Mitsubishi) alliance, forged by a US$5 billion investment. His was one of the most successful deals in the auto industry, with selling 10.6 million... https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/2180856/ghosns-christmas-odyssey-tokyo-jail-reminds-us-be-sceptical?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/2180856/ghosns-christmas-odyssey-tokyo-jail-reminds-us-be-sceptical?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 06 Jan 2019 03:30:00 +0000 China’s growth and inexorable rise to become one of the world’s top two global economic powers is now apparent to all. Some of the results of this rise are well known. They include the vast numbers of people lifted out of poverty, the spread of social security and health care, and the expansion of China’s economic and political reach. China’s economic rise has gone hand in hand with a variety of proclamations from the state. These range from the earlier neo-Confucianist “harmonious society” to... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/united-states/article/2179696/china-model-only-latest-long-line-touted?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/united-states/article/2179696/china-model-only-latest-long-line-touted?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 28 Dec 2018 02:45:30 +0000 There have been fierce debates in the United Kingdom and the rest of Europe since the Brexit vote about what might happen to the City of London in terms of its position as the world’s pre-eminent financial services centre. These arguments by commentators, practitioners, policymakers and academics disappointingly, but not unexpectedly, have been conducted in a simple, narrow, extremely eurocentric, even ethnocentric, manner which treats the subject as a zero-sum game.  Too many commentators seem... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2146140/move-over-london-hello-hong-kong-beijing-shanghai-worlds-top?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2146140/move-over-london-hello-hong-kong-beijing-shanghai-worlds-top?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 15 May 2018 06:00:15 +0000 Britain’s interest in China seemed to have waned somewhat prior to last week’s general election. This was in contrast to the public passion of former prime minister David Cameron and then-chancellor George Osborne for encouraging greater Chinese investment, cooperation and trade with a raft of high-profile statements and projects aimed at fostering closer China-UK ties in a so-called “Golden Age”. This was conceived as a grand deal, whereby Britain offered investors and companies from China... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2098251/comment-chinas-importance-britain-will-rise-post-brexit?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2098251/comment-chinas-importance-britain-will-rise-post-brexit?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 14 Jun 2017 05:00:00 +0000