The Past and the Future of Employee Voice: Shenzhen's High Technology Industry

Denise Tsang () and Zhang Yan ()
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Denise Tsang: Henley Business School, University of Reading
Zhang Yan: School of Economics, Shandong University P.R. China

John H Dunning Centre for International Business Discussion Papers from Henley Business School, University of Reading

Abstract: Can a nation's technology future be linked to its past? This article discusses employee voice, as defined in terms of discretionary and constructive behaviour that challenge the status quo, within the innovative, fast growing high technology industry in China. It provides insight into factors shaping employee voice in this under-researched knowledge-intensive sector of China that has emerged rapidly since the economic reform. It suggests the notion of employee voice among the highly skilled knowledge workforce can only be understood in terms of technological convergence and cultural divergence.

Keywords: employee voice; high technology; cultural divergency; Shenzhen (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J59 L69 M12 N35 N95 O43 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-07
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