Since its opening in 1978, China has undergone radical change. By establishing special economic zones along its Eastern coastal borders under Deng Xioping’s tutelage, China entered the global market. Loosening controls from central government allowed for a more free-market approach that facilitated easier trading partnerships across national boundaries.
Leadership and China: Philosophy, Place and Practice explores the impact of these changes today. Companies across the globe are doing business with Chinese counterparts, but recently the Western world has begun treating China with suspicion, with some commentators claiming nefarious aims on the part of Chinese Communist Party, and intentions of favoring China’s growing middle class and political elites, while impoverishing other international trading partners. This calls for wise leadership on both sides of the political divide and this book facilitates conversations that explore synergies between East and West, aiming to move past suspicion and discuss how leaders might work for the benefit of all humanity.
With an orientation towards conversations rather than polemics, graduate students, scholars and business leaders across the globe will benefit from this book.
Author(s): Ralph J. Bathurst, Michelle Sitong Chen
Series: Routledge Studies in Leadership Research
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 186
City: New York
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
About the Authors
Forward: Why Leadership and China?
References
1. Confucian connections: Foucault and guanxi
Introduction
Confucianism and guanxi
Dispositive and discourse
The guanxi dispositive
Dimensions of the guanxi dispositive
Discourse
Governmentality and culture
Governmentality
Culture
Morality
Power and knowledge
Power
Knowledge
Notes
References
2. Leadership lessons from landscape painting East & West: Cultivating a spiritual eco-imagination
Introduction
Taking the global temperature
Thinking the twenty-first century
An ecological conversion
Nature and art as human needs
Looking East
China background
Leading with purpose
Becoming Inner Sage Outer King
The Chinese view on nature
Purpose into action
Nature and art as needs of the mind
How nature informed Chinese language
Art as a need of the mind
The three tenets of wenrenhua
Counsel for the Wenrenhua viewer
Early American landscape painting
The birth of the world's first national park system
Appreciating the American landscape
Conclusion
Notes
References
3. Silent motion to prosperity, leadership from a Chinese perspective
Introduction
Cultural perspective and language
Leadership through a Western lens
The propensity of things: A Chinese conception of reality
道 dào
Propensity
Influence of the environment
陰yīn and 陽yáng
勢shì
Acquiring prosperity through leadership's motion
Prosperity from a Chinese perspective
Prosperity through propensity
Follow leadership to acquire prosperity
Detecting propensity relies on receptivity
An interpretation of China's rise through a Chinese lens
Summary
Conclusion and recommendations for future research
References
4. Investigating tensions in sustainability in Chinese and New Zealand business partnerships: An empirical analysis
Introduction
Literature review
Conceptualizing holistic sustainability
Tensions in sustainability in business contexts
Methodology
Research philosophy and methods
Data analysis
Findings
Identification of multiple tensions
Financial dominance of triple bottom line tensions
Temporal tensions
Minor commercial and moral tensions
Minor spatial tensions
Discussion
Practical and managerial implications
Limitations and future research
Conclusions
References
5. Leading the way guided by the Tao Te Ching
Introduction
The quality of work
Adapting to the environment
Communication
Learning from water
Choosing partners when preparing for long-term collaboration
Conclusion
References
6. When the Dragon and Taniwha meet: Doing business with China
Global interconnectivity
Multilateralism or trade war?
A brief history of cultural relationships
A Dragon Taniwha meeting
Lessons from the Dragon Taniwha relationship
Cultural antecedents
Curiosity
Poly-dexterity
Sustaining connections
References
7. Confucian leadership in the age of Xi Jinping
Introduction
Confucius as a liberal
Accountability
Responsibility
Decentralization
The challenges of leadership, as the twain meet
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index
