Abstract
Earlier chapters explored a broad understanding of innovation in China from different angles. This current chapter focuses on the level of organization in business operation in the corresponding industry, and how an intra-organizational personnel management system cooperates with inter-organizational stakeholders to approach innovation. In this sense, we distinguish the personnel management within an organization and extend this management to inter-organizational relationships, to a broader definition of human resource management (HRM) as Zhang et al. (2009) suggest in order to make HR truly strategic.
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- Intrinsic Motivation
- Human Resource Management
- Extrinsic Motivation
- Corporate Culture
- Performance Appraisal
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Tian, M., Rohlfer, S., Zhao, W., Álvaro, A. (2015). People-centric Innovation: Strategic HR Management and Innovation. In: The Source of Innovation in China. Palgrave Studies in Chinese Management. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137335067_5
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