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: Cheng Hong; Guest Editor of IJCM 2017 Special Issue and Dean of IQDS

Dear Attendees,

It is our great pleasure to invite you to the 2017 International Journal of Conflict Management (IJCM) Special Issue Conference to be held at Wuhan University from June 19-20, 2017. The theme of the conference will be Conflict in China during its transition and we are honored to have the following academics as our keynote speakers:

Hong Cheng (Wuhan University, CHN)

Richard A. Posthuma (University of Texas at El Paso, USA)

Welcome to join IJCM 2017 Special Issue Conference. We hope to see you all here in June!

Guest Editor of IJCM 2017 Special Issue

Hong Cheng

About Editors

: Tachia Chin
Tachia CHIN, Associate Professor and Ph.D. in HRM. With 10 years working experience as a Chief HR/CSR director for multinational companies in Singapore, Taipei and Shenzhen, China, her current research interests focus on strategic HRM, cross-cultural management, human capital development and leadership. Her publication‘Understanding labor conflicts in Chinese manufacturing: a Yin-Yang harmony perspective’ is the 2016 outstanding paper for IJCM.

: Richard A. Posthuma
Richard A. Posthuma is the Ellis and Susan Mayfield Professor of Management in the College of Business Administration at the University of Texas at El Paso. He has published on many topics including conflict management, staffing, high performance work practices, justice, and international/cross-cultural issues. He earned a PhD in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management from Purdue University; JD, Cum Laude, from Thomas M. Cooley Law School; and Masters in Labor and Industrial Relations from Michigan State University. He is Editor of the International Journal of Conflict Management.

: Hong Cheng
Hong Cheng, Professor, Doctoral Supervisor and Ph. D. in Economics, Visiting Scholar of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2014) and Stanford University (2016-2017), is Dean of Institute of Quality Development Strategy, Director of China Enterprise Survey and Data Center and Director of Management Committee of China Employer-Employee Survey (CEES). He now serves as Guest Editor of International Journal of Conflict Management (IJCM, SSCI journal), and is also the Funding and Chief Editor of Journal of Macro-quality Research since 2013. His research interests encompass China’s economic transition, quality of economic development, product quality governance and regulation, and entrepreneurship and innovation. He received the First China Quality Award Nomination from the Chinese government in 2013.

Focus

As China steps into a crucial period of institutional changes and social transformation, relationships with social interests are developing new trends. From this background, the special issue sets out to explore current conflicts and development trends in China during its transition. Empirical studies based on high-quality, first-hand firm survey data are welcomed on the following issues:

- What kind of new trends have resulted from the recent of conflicts in China's economic development?

- Do the conflicts between economic development and social governance hinder the improvement of social welfare?

- Have conflicts between urban employees and migrant workers been reduced, or not?

- How will the conflicts between labor shortage and human capital quality affect China's transition?

- What is the change about conflicts between distribution of income and economic development model oriented to domestic demand?

Topics

- Conflicts in China's economic development

- Conflicts between economic development and social governance

- Conflicts between urban residents and rural residents under the household registration (Hukou) system

- Conflicts between labor shortage and human capital quality upgrade

- Conflicts between distribution of income and economic development model oriented to domestic demand.

Tachia Chin

Richard A. Posthuma

Hong Cheng