... and entered Hong Kong’s cross-border insurance business, the study examines how highly educated young women negotiate gender expectations and mobilize social networks in doing business. Findings This study finds different strategies women used in mobilizing social networks and constructing gender...

.... Semistructured interviews were conducted with eight women social entrepreneurs from various industries in Hong Kong to understand and examine their experiences of “emancipation from” and “emancipation to” in social entrepreneurship. Findings This study identified a three-phase emancipatory journey of women...

... in Hong Kong. Findings The results show that positive attitudes towards women's leadership qualities and higher ratio of females in top management positions are associated with a lower cross‐gender instrumental network for females. Perceived discrimination or being married encourages female managers...

... to western female business expatriates in Hong Kong regarding their coping strategies and adjustment. Findings As predicted, the results showed that the female expatriates more often used problem focused than symptom focused coping strategies. Surprisingly, there was no association between problem...

...Susanna Lo; Raymond Stone; Catherine W. Ng This study examined the kinds of work‐family conflict experienced by female married professionals with children in Hong Kong and the coping strategies they had adopted. Data were obtained through 50 in‐depth interviews. The results revealed the general...

...Marianne Tremaine Katharine   Venter . Common Careers, Different Experiences: Women Managers in Hong Kong and Britain . Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press   2002 . 256 pp. , ISBN: ISBN 962‐209‐537‐2   US$24.95 © MCB UP Limited 2002 --> Cultural differences...

...; the personal glass hurdle, the distance between one’s self‐assessment and the ratings of a successful manager. This research examined two important reflections of these glass hurdles in Hong Kong. Results showed that students of both genders regarded the successful middle manager as more similar to the typical...

...Alicia S.M. Leung; Stewart R. Clegg Reports a study of female executives (n = 30) working in the public sector in Hong Kong. The research captures a set of organisational practices in transition: from a colonial to a post‐colonial setting, and from a bureaucracy that offered jobs for life...

... of 156 BBA and MBA students in Hong Kong. Results indicate no significant differences between the scores of males and females on the total MSCS‐H or its components, including assertiveness and competitiveness. Gender role differences are not supported by differences in managerial motivation of Hong Kong...

... women is more supportive than both mixed‐sex communication and same‐sex communication between men. However, this research, conducted in Hong Kong among full‐ and part‐time tertiary students, shows that the above contentions are perhaps culture dependent, and that careful re‐examination of gender‐based...

...May M.L. Wong Examines the employment status of women employees working for two Japanese department stores in Hong Kong. Empirical evidence reveals that Japanese expatriate managers bring sexist cultural values, which discriminate against women in the host‐country environment, because a majority...

...Irene Hau‐Siu Chow The rapid economic growth and industrialization of Hong Kong has created more job opportunities for women; nearly one‐in‐two have jobs. Women comprised 37 per cent of Hong Kong′s total work‐force, but held only 20 per cent of the managerial positions. Discusses the general...