Theme: Conflicts in China during its transition

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?

Editors:

Professor CHENG Hong, Wuhan University, China; 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. Developing Self-regulated Learners in the Language Classroom

Professor CHIN Tachia, Hangzhou Dianzi University, China; 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. Developing Self-regulated Learners in the Language Classroom

Professor Richard A. Posthuma, University of Texas at El Paso, USA; 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. Developing Self-regulated Learners in the Language Classroom

IJCM Special Issue Conference Held in IQDS

On June 19, the International Journal of Conflict Management (IJCM) Special Issue Conference was held in the Institute of Quality Development Strategy. Prof. Zhuanghai Shen, the Deputy Secretary of Wuhan University CPC Party Committee, Prof. Richard A. Posthuma, editor of IJCM, professor of management at the University of Texas at El Paso, Prof. Hong Cheng, Director of the Institute of Quality Development Strategy, Ms Tachia Chin, guest editor of IJCM China issue and Associate Professor of Hangzhou Dianzi University attended the opening ceremony of the conference.

At the conference, Prof. Hong Cheng published a keynote speech entitled "Research on Conflict of Management Based on the Increase of Labor Cost in China - Empirical Evidence from “China Employer-Employee Survey" (CEES). He analyzed the conflict between "management and employees" from seven aspects in the process of China's economic transformation and upgrading. The policy support, survey method, quality control and implementation methods of CEES are introduced from the perspective of theoretical background, measurement method and statistical data. Through CEES data, the management conflict between China's labor and capital in the transitional period is thoroughly analyzed from the perspective of rising labor costs, structural changes in the labor market and the manager's viewpoint.

Currently, a total of 108 papers were submitted to the IJCM, including 47 of which were selected to be presented at the Special Issue Conference. The conference was divided into seven parallel forums. Dozens of leading authors from Peking University, Tsinghua University, Xiamen University and other prestigious universities worked in small groups and discussed about the conflict in China during its transition. Specifically, they focused on the conflict in China's economic development model, economic development and social governance, the conflict between urban and rural residents under the household register system, labor shortage and the upgrading of human resource, income distribution and transformation of domestic demand and so on. Prof. Richard A. Posthuma, editor of IJCM and Professor Hong Cheng, guest editor, Ms Tachia Chin, Associate Professor and Ph.D. in HRM served as the advisers of the journal.

Submission Procedure:

Submissions to this journal are through the ScholarOne submission system here: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijcma

Please visit the author guidelines for the journal at

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Updates about the IJCM Special Issue can be found at 

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Updated Submission Deadline:

September, 30, 2017

Suggested Submission Period

September 20 – September 30, 2017

Please email expressions of interest to Editors below:

Guest Editor Professor CHENG Hong, Wuhan University, China. Email: 919637855@qq.com

Ms FAN Hanbing, Wuhan University, China. Email: 94521019@qq.com

References

Angela Shin-yih, Chen, Yu-hsiang, Hou, I-heng, Wu. (2016). 'Handling conflict at work - the impact of active and agreeable conflict styles', International Journal of Conflict Management. 27(1): 50-61

Dannii, Y., Yeung Helene H., Fung Darius Chan. (2015). 'Managing conflict at work: comparison between younger and older managerial employees', International Journal of Conflict Management. 26(3): 342-364

Chin, T., Liu, R-h. (2015). 'Understanding labor conflicts in Chinese manufacturing: a YinYang harmony perspective', International Journal of Conflict Management. 26(3):288-315.

About the Journal

International Journal of Conflict Management (IJCM, ISSN: 1044-4068), set up in 1990, is a SSCI journal accredited and released by the world leading publisher Emerald.It is ranked by AERES (France), Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) Quality Journal List, Australian Research Council (ERA Journal List), ESSEC (France), Scopus, The Publication Forum (Finland), Thomson Reuters (ISI), etc. It is indexed and abstracted in: Academic Search Premier, Business Source Alumni Edition/Complete/Corporate Plus/Elite/Premier (EBSCO), Business Source Premier, Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences, Psychology Behavioural Sciences Collection (EBSCO), SocIndex (EBSCO), Corporate ResourceNet (EBSCO), ESSEC Business School, INSPEC, OCLC's Electronic Collections Online, ProQuest - ABI Inform, Psychological Abstracts, PsycINFO, PsycLIT, Research Alert, Psychology & Behavioral Collection, ReadCube Discover, Scopus, Social Sciences Citation Index, Sociological Abstracts & Sociological Collection.