Seminar (Dept. of General Management)

Theme：CHINESE MANAGEMENT STUDIES: A MATCHED-SAMPLES META-ANALYSIS AND FOCUSED REVIEW OF INDIGENOUS THEORIES

Speaker：Pursey Heugens（Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University）

Time：2021-11-04 16:00

Address：Zoom Meeting

Language：English

Venue：Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/87289889256?pwd=bUgzeE8rZzBmU2VSUDlWbmVoV0FWdz09 

Meeting ID：872 8988 9256

Password：556896

ABSTRACT：

The field of Chinese management studies has grown tremendously over the past four decades. Management theories originating from the U.S. have remained dominant in the analysis of Chinese firms, prompting the question of how powerfully these Western lenses explain management practices in non-Western contexts. Through a matched-samples meta-analysis, which integrates matching techniques into meta-analysis, we compare the mean effect sizes for five classic Western management theories—institutional theory, resource dependence theory, the resource-based view, agency theory, and transaction cost theory—on 452 matched samples drawn from 1,028 U.S. and Chinese studies. Surprisingly, as compared to their U.S. counterparts, Chinese firms: (a) are less responsive to coercive and mimetic pressures yet more subject to normative pressures; (b) establish fewer business relations when faced with resource dependencies and transaction costs; (c) extract more profit from managing generic strategic resources; and (d) are more sensitive to pay incentives and private blockholders. To understand the specificities of Chinese management practices, we furthermore conduct a focused review of the emerging literature on China-endemic explanations: institutional imprinting theory, a Chinese take on sustainable development, and a China-centric theory of corporate governance. We conclude that indigenous theories effectively complement Western perspectives when accounting for Chinese management practices.

SHORT BIOGRAPHY：

Pursey Heugens is the Dean of Research of the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. He is also a Professor of Organization Theory at the Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship at the same school, and holder of the BDO-Rabobank endowed chair in Family Business. After serving a term as Associate Editor at the Academy of Management Journal, he is currently Associate Editor at the Journal of Management. Professor Heugens has won numerous awards for his research and teaching, including best dissertation and best paper awards from several Academy of Management divisions. His research has been published in academic journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, the Academy of Management Journal, the Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Organization Studies, and the Journal of Management Studies. Much of his research agenda deals with the strategy and governance of specific organizational forms, like state-owned enterprises or family firms. He is particularly interested in how national-level institutions influence such firms, thus affecting their prevalence, strategies, and outcomes in specific locales.