... reduction in the recent decades (Pfeffer, 1998 ; Xia and Tang, 2009). As a result, the well‐known concept of research and development (R&D) in business organizations has been turned into a different “R&D”, receiving and duplicating. While this may be a quick way to catch up with the rest...

... and organisation theories in the China context. China Research and development Human resource management Human resource management research David Lamond can be contacted at: david.lamond@vu.edu.au © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 The model proposed and summarised in Figure 2...