Industrial Democracy in the Chinese Aerospace Industry, 1st ed. 2017
The Innovation Catalyst

This book provides an up-to-date insight to the many innovations of the indigenous aerospace industry from a socio-economic perspective, a final frontier of Chinese technology that will shape global competitive dynamics in the 21st century. An industry that relies on human capital to engage in concept-intensive high tech production, this book discusses the future prospect of the Chinese system within the increasing power of global firms over high tech labour. The author also introduces a systematic discussion of industrial democracy in the high tech sector within Chinese state capitalism, and compares and contrasts the Chinese model with Anglo-American and Latin European models within the aerospace industry. Utilizing original primary data, it provides a unique first-hand perspective of industrial democracy within the Chinese aerospace industry.

Chapter 1 A Catalyst for Chinese Aerospace Innovation.- Chapter 2 The Entrepreneurial State in Innovation.- Chapter 3 Work Autonomy and Product Innovation.- Chapter 4 Employee Involvement in the age of Marketization.- Chapter 5 Obsolency or Revival of Old Style Industrial Democracy.- Chapter 6 Whatever Happened to Industrial Democracy?.

Denise Tsang is a Lecturer at Henley Business School, UK. She has previously held posts at the University of Bath, Manchester Business School and Bristol Business School, UK. Her research interests include strategic issues within multinationals, creativity, cross-cultural management, institutions and knowledge-based capitalism on which she has written over 30 articles and several books.