...Lin Tang; Jing Song Purpose Online business can be an attractive career choice but bears gendered implications under China’s market economy. This study aims to examine how highly educated young women negotiate their career choice of online business, given their enhanced career ambitions...

... to align their gender identity, forge meaningful work and new relationships and navigate mixed gender expectations. Design/methodology/approach The study is based on 19 in-depth interviews with young women engaging in social entrepreneurship in China. Using a grounded theory approach, the study...

... in Zhejiang, the entrepreneurial hotbed in coastal China, this study examines the experiences of self-employed female entrepreneurs who used to work in the iron rice bowl and the spring rice jobs and explores their nonconventional career transition and its gendered implications. Findings This study finds...

...Xiaojing Zheng; Xiaoxian Wang Purpose This study aims to examine the effect of board gender diversity on corporate litigation in China’s listed firms. The key questions this study addresses are: what are the effect of board gender diversity on corporate litigation in terms of both the frequency...

... management aspirations. In China, the traditional socio-cultural values deeply embedded in society emphasizes the sexual division of labor at home and in the workplace and still exert extensive influence on expectations and norms about women and men holding social role. As previously stated, men take...

...Iiris Aaltio; Jiehua Huang Purpose Inadequate social networks are often seen as an explanation of the under-representation of women in management. Networks contain culture-specific features, as in China where the term guanxi is used, defined as a shared common identification held by two or more...

... is to understand factors that contribute to the effectiveness of women as supervisors and subordinates in the manufacturing sector. Design/methodology/approach Data were gathered from 308 subordinates and 71 supervisors working in the manufacturing sector in mainland China using a survey methodology...

... © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only China Gender Women Aesthetic labour Chinese airlines Flight attendants Interviewees, including 46 female flight attendants and 9 managers from the three Chinese airlines, were selected using...

... Monitor, a sample of 16,365 entrepreneurs is used to compare the gendering of entrepreneurs’ networks in China and five countries largely located around the Persian Gulf, namely Yemen, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. Findings Analyses show that female entrepreneurs tend to have...

... different relationships among the study variables. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected via a questionnaire survey of 362 employees from three large companies in China. Structural equation modeling was used to evaluate alternative models and test the hypotheses. Findings This paper found...

... and personal lives. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 China Women Entrepreneurialism Personal factor Family factor Social factor Skills factor Social feminist theory Liberal feminist theory Non‐economic performance The main objective of this study was to establish whether...

..., Australia and Japan; while the developing countries are Malaysia, the Philippines and China. Findings There are variations in the achievement indicator in terms of percentage of female parliamentarians in the two groups of countries. Reasons for variations are explained. Research limitations...

...) in the process of obtaining finance. Design/methodology/approach A structured questionnaire is used to collect comprehensive financial data from 18 women to 69 men, which is analysed empirically. Findings Women appear to be no more disadvantaged from obtaining finance than men in China and in some...

... this has for women's career theory in China. Design/methodology/approach Personal narrative method is used to explore the women's cumulated experiences of career management in order to draw out their feelings and attitudes. Findings Findings demonstrated convergence between western career theory...

...Fang Lee Cooke Reviews the positive role of the state in promoting women’s employment since the founding of Communist China in 1949. Identifies patterns of gender inequality which exist throughout the process of employment such as recruitment and retirement. Against this backcloth, analyses major...

...Ellen J. Frank An attitude survey was conducted with 72 management majors attending a prestigious business university in Beijing, China. The results indicate that there is still a significant “glass ceiling” effect to accepting women as they climb up the management hierarchy. The group estimated...

... 2001 Gender Negotiating China There is evidence to suggest that over the last century China has indeed undergone dramatic economic modernisation. Scholars disagree on precisely when “modern” China began, with dates ranging from as early as the Song dynasty (960‐1279) to as late...

... and work for social concurrent post. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Time Time management Gender China In a reforming and opening‐up China, the saying “Time is money while effectiveness is life” has been accepted by more and more people. Time is a special and rare resource (Drucker, 1985...

...Carol A. McKeen; Nailin Bu The career and life expectations of male and female Chinese students and graduates of the Certified General Accountants (CGA) Canada program in China were explored using a survey and semi‐structured interviews. The results of the survey were compared to data from students...