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to Table of ContentsProfessor Dominique Besson Dominique.Besson@iae.univ-lille1.fr
Dominique Besson is an associate
professor in the Institute of Business Administration of Lille
University (France). He received his PhD in Economics from Grenoble
University (France) in 1996. He teaches courses in Management, Human
Resources Management, Work economics and Social Psychology. His
research focuses on work relations and organizational structures, more
precisely on skills and competencies management. He is also concerned
by small and medium sized firms studies and methodological
works.
Dominique Besson has recently
published with S. Haddadj a book and papers about skill management,
notably in Journal of European Industrial Training and Revue
Française de Gestion (Paris). He regularly participates to Meetings
in France and USA about these subjects, with recent communications at
Industrial Relations Research Association, International Academy for
Business Disciplines and Organizational Behavior teaching Conference
meetings.
David
M. Boje, Ph.D.
Professor of Management
Department of Management, MSC 3DJ
New Mexico State University
P.O. Box 30001/Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001
Phone (505) 646-2391 Work
Phone (505) 532-1693 Home Office
Fax (505) 646-1372
Email: dboje@nmsu.edu
David M. Boje is a professor of management in the Management Department at New Mexico State University. He has published numerous articles in Management Communication Quarterly, Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, and other top management journals. David is chair-elect of the Research Methods Division of the Academy of Management and serves on the Board of Governors of the International Academy of Business Disciplines. He is editor of the Journal of Organizational Change Management. More recently, he is founding editor of Tamara: The Journal of Critical Postmodern Organization Science. He serves on the editorial board of Academy of Management Review, Management Digest, Organization, Journal of Management Inquiry, M@n@gement, Organization Studies, EJ-ROT, Emergence: A Journal of Complexity Issues in Organizations and Management Communication Quarterly . Recent books include Managing in the Postmodern World (1993, 2000) with Bob Dennehy; and Postmodern Management and Organizational Theory (1996), with Robert Gephart and Tojo Thatchenkery, Narrative Research Methods for Communication Studies (Sage, 2000), and Spectacles and Festivals: Ahimsa approaches to production and consumption (Hampton Press, CA, 2001 use ID=Guest and Pass=Guest). His vita is available on the web (press here). David Boje's past academic work on Nike Corporation is listed next. Boje has also taught accountants and managers in the Maquiladora to implement ISO14000 and SA8000 standards of health, safety and ecology.
Victoria Carty
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
James Madison University
Harrisonburg, VA 22807
e-mail cartyvl@jmu.edu
phone: (540) 568-5361
RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS
China’s Workers Under Assault: Exploitation and Abuse in a Globalizing Economy, Armonk, New York : M. E. Sharpe, 2001, edited by Anita Chan
Chan, Anita "Whither the Chinese Work Unit? Toward Enterprise `Familism’ or the Market?", in Elizabeth Perry and Lu Xiaobo, eds., Between State and Society: The Changing Chinese Work-Unit in Historical and Comparative Perspective (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1997), pp. 91–113.
Chan, Anita "Labor Relations in Foreign-funded Ventures", in Greg O’Leary, ed., Adjusting to Capitalism: Chinese Workers and their State (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1997), pp. 122–49.
Chan, Anita "Trade Unions, Conditions of Labor, and the State", in Jutta Hebel & Gunter Schucher ed, Der Chinesische Arbeitsmarkt (Hamburg: Mitteilungen des Instituts fur Asienkunde,1999), pp. 237–56.
Chan, Anita "Chinese Trade Unions and Workplace Relations in the State-owned and Joint-venture Enterprises", in Malcolm Warner, ed., Changing Workplace Relations in the Chinese Economy, (London, Macmillan, 2000), pp. 34–56.
Chan, Anita "Culture of Survival: Lives of Migrant Workers Through the Prism of Private Letters", in Perry Link, Richard Madsen and Paul Pickowicz, eds. Popular Thought in Post-Socialist China, (Boulder: Rowman & Littlefield), 2001.
Chan, Anita "Workers Under ‘Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics’: Labour Relations in the Special Economic Zones", China Information, Vol. V, No. 4 (Spring 1991), pp. 75–82.
Chan, Anita "Revolution or Corporatism? Workers and Trade Unions in Post-Mao China", Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, No. 29 (1993), pp. 31–61; also in David Goodman and Beverley Hooper, eds, China’s Quiet Revolution: New Interactions Between State and Society (Melbourne: Longman Cheshire; New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994) pp. 162–93; reprinted in Chun Lin, ed, The International Library of Politics and Comparative Government Series: China, Volume II (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 1999). A Chinese version is published in Modern China Studies (Princeton), No. 43 (1994), pp. 4–28.
Chan, Anita "Chinese Enterprise Reforms: Convergence with the Japanese Model?", Industrial and Corporate Change, Vol. 4, No. 3 (1995), pp. 449–70; also in Barrett McCormick and Jonathan Unger, eds., China After Socialism: In the Footsteps of Eastern Europe or East Asia?, (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1996), pp. 181–202.
"Chan, Anita The Emerging Patterns of Industrial Relations in China and the Rise of Two New Labour Movements", China Information, Vol. 9, No. 4 (1995), pp. 36–59.
Chan, Anita "Labor Standards and Human Rights: The Case of Chinese Workers Under Market Socialism", Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 4 (1998), pp. 886–904.
Chan, Anita "Globalization, China’s Free (Read Bonded) Labour Market, and the Chinese Trade Union,"
Chan, Anita Asia Pacific Business Review, Vol. 6, No. 3 & 4, (Spring/Summer, 2000), pp. 260–81.
Chan, Anita "Workers’ Rights are Human Rights", China Rights Forum, Summer, 1997, pp. 4–7.
Chan, Anita "The Conditions of Chinese Workers in East Asia-Funded Enterprises", Chinese Sociology and Anthropology, (Summer 1998), 101 pp.
Anita Chan and Robert A. Senser, "China’s Troubled Workers", Foreign Affairs, Vol. 76, No. 2 (March, 1997), pp. 104–17.
Anita Chan and Irene Norlund, "Vietnamese and Chinese Labor Regimes: On the Road to Divergence", The China Journal, No. 40, (1998), pp. 173–97; also in Anita Chan, and Benedict T. Kerkvliet, and Jonathan Unger, eds., Transforming Socialism: China and Vietnam Compared, Australia, Allen & Unwin, 1999, pp. 204–28; also published by Boulder, Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 204–28.
Jonathan Unger and Anita Chan, "Inheritors of the Boom: Private Enterprise and the Role of Local Government in a Rural South China Township", The China Journal, No. 42 (July, 1999), pp. 45–74.
Chen Meei-Shia and Anita Chan, "Workers’ Health and Environmental Pollution in China: The Export-led Economy in Command", International Journal of Health Services, Vol. 29, No. 4, (1999), pp. 793–811.
Jonathan Unger and Anita Chan, "Chinese Corporatism: A Developmental State in an East Asian Context", in Barrett McCormick and Jonathan Unger, eds., China After Socialism: In the Footsteps of Eastern Europe or East Asia? (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E.Sharpe, 1996), pp. 95–129.
Robert Lambert and Anita Chan, "Global Dance: Factory Regimes, Asian Labour Standards and Corporate Restructuring", in Jeremy Waddington, ed. Globalisation and Labour Resistance (London, Mansell, 1999), pp. 72–104.
Anita Chan & Zhu Xiaoyang, "Disciplinary Labor Regimes in Chinese Factories," under review by an industrial relations journal.
Angana P.
Chatterji Ph.D. Angana@aol.com
Professor, Social and Cultural Anthropology
California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco
Director of Research, Asia Forest Network Program
Center for Southeast Asia Studies
University of California, Berkeley
Address: 4th Floor. 1453 Mission Street.
San Francisco, California - 94103. USA
Phone: (415) 575 6100. Ext. 442
Fax: (415) 648 5021
E-mail: Angana@aol.com
Angana P. Chatterji is the Director of Research with the Asia
Forest Network, Center for Southeast Asia Studies, University of
California, Berkeley. For sixteen years she has been working with
marginalized communities, non governmental organizations and
government agencies in South Asia, and with donor agencies and
institutions internationally. She has been deeply involved in
rethinking rights, policies and governance related to
organizational change and social movements in sustainable
development. Angana is also on the faculty of the Social and
Cultural Anthropology program at the California Institute of
Integral Studies, an accredited graduate institution in San
Francisco, and teaches in the areas of postcolonial equity and
advocacy, social and ecological justice, social rights, feminist
applied research.
Angana's professional specializations include environment and
development planning and analysis, multilevel organizational
interface and coordination, gender, labor and social rights,
migration, social and ecological resources management,
applied and action research and policy reform. Using
critical,
interdisciplinary frameworks she has been involved in developing
applied, action and advocacy research methodologies, and
policy analysis mechanisms.
Angana has designed, managed and implemented
complex, multi-stakeholder, participatory action research
projects, with bilateral funding and an outreach of over 25
million people. Angana draws on varied disciplines in her
work including ethics, politics, development and gender studies,
social and cultural anthropology, public administration,
environmental management, and social economics.
Angana is on the board of directors of Earth Island Institute and
Community Forestry International, and serves on the advisory
board of Sustainable Alternatives to the Global Economy. She
lives and works both in India and the United States and has
published extensively. Angana holds an M.A. in Politics, and
a Ph.D. in the Humanities with a focus in Development
Studies and Social and Cultural Anthropology.
Angana has worked in association with, and received support for
her work from various agencies, including the Planning
Commission of India, the Ford Foundation, the Wallace Global
Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Swedish
International Development Authority, the Government of India,
Institute for Public Administration, Indian Social Institute, and
the Center for Southeast Asia Studies, University of
California, Berkeley.
Tim Connor, BA,
LLB
Doctoral Candidate,
School of Geosciences,
University of Newcastle,
Australia.
Address: 55 Wells Street, Redfern NSW 2016 Australia
Phone: 61 2 9698 2394
email: tconnor@nlc.net.au
Alexis Ann Downs, Ph.D. adowns@ucok.edu
University of Central Oklahoma
500 Park Place (405) 974-3853 fax
Edmond, OK 73034 (405) 974-5333
I am very interested in the Nike Corporation Study Group. During my Ph.D. program in Management, I completed a minor in Public Policy Analysis, and I think the Nike Study Group includes fascinating policy issues. In addition, I am a CPA, licensed in Oklahoma with a current permit to practice; thus, I could bring certain "number crunching" skills to the project.
Research Question 4 is appealing, and I would be happy to volunteer to work on that group.
Below is a brief vita. Please let me know if you need any other information.
1998 St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri. Graduated with a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Business and Administration. Major: Management Minor: Public Policy Analysis
Dissertation Title: Upstream and Downstream Thinking--Malcolm Baldrige Award Winning Values
1982 University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma. Graduated with a Master of Accountancy degree.
I have done research on the Symbolic power of adherence to the Sullivan Principles by multinationals in South Africa, as well as interpreted corporate social responsibility efforts as attempts to placate stakeholders. I would like to apply some of my theories to Nike's operations especially in South Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, India, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam and China.
Some Relevant Publications:
For a more complete list, see http://www.asia-pacific.com/u-pubs.htm
Laura P. Hartman,
Ph.D.
Asst. Vice President/Assoc. Prof. of Business Ethics
DePaul University, Executive Offices
1 E. Jackson Blvd.
Chicago, IL 60604
312/362-6569
Fax: 312/896-7440
Laura P. Hartman is Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs at DePaul University in Chicago, IL. She is also an associate professor in the Management Department, teaching Business Ethics in both the undergraduate and graduate MBA programs and serving on the board of DePaul's Institute for Business & Professional Ethics. Until recently, Hartman held the Grainger Chair of Business Ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business. Hartman has also served as an adjunct professor of business law and ethics at Northwestern's Kellogg Graduate School of Management. Hartman has written numerous textbooks, including Employment Law for Business and Perspectives in Business Ethics. She has also published articles in, among other journals, The Academy of Management Executive, Hofstra Law Review, the Journal of Business Ethics, Business Ethics Quarterly, the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, and The American Business Law Journal.
Statement: I have a grant from the ethics
resource center to conduct research for the purpose of highlighting
any successful corporate programs that have been shown to work from
both a management and labor perspective (i.e. win-win) with regards to
global labor conditions. I could elaborate if you want but you can
imagine I am very interested in your recent email about Nike. I am a
member if IABS and am the program chair for next year's annual meeting
of the Society for Business Ethics (also a member of the academy of
legal studies in business, if that helps!). I would think that the
Society for Business Ethics would be very interested in your proposal.
(unfortunately we don't have an email list server but many folks are
also members of IABS).
Given the fact that I have some funding to visit three different
countries at varying levels of economic development, and that I have
not yet determined which countries those might be, I would certainly
be interested in serving as a member of a study group or research. In
particular, I am interested in what you call "positive"
studies since I am trying to present models of successful programs (as
an encouragement to those MNEs trying to figure out how to respond to
these issues). I have reviewed your site and am not quite sure which
research question I would be best suited for. I am attaching some
recent research (I think it does reference Nike somewhere in it but
don't recall specifically what made it in the final cut). The research
seeks to apply integrative social contract theory in order to
determine the nature of moral minimum standards for global labor
conditions. The paper is being final edited and has been submitted to
Business Ethics Quarterly for publication.
Lynn
R. Kahle, Ph.D. lkahle@lcbmail.uoregon.edu
James Warsaw Professor of Marketing
University of Oregon See Appendix B for Kahle
et al research.
Lynn R. Kahle is the James Warsaw Professor of Marketing at the University of Oregon, USA. Topics of his research include social adaptation, social values, and sports marketing. His articles have appeared in such outlets as the Journal of Consumer Research, Sport Marketing Quarterly, Public Opinion Quarterly, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Child Development. His books include Social Values and Social Change, Marketing Management, and Values, Lifestyles, and Psychographics. He has served as Editor of the journal Sport Marketing Quarterly. He has published more than 100 refereed articles on such topics as sports, values, and organizations. He is a Past President of the Society for Consumer Psychology and Division 23 of the American Psychological Association.
He has had an interest in the issues surrounding the ethics of Asian sourcing for a long time. He is a card-carrying member of Amnesty International. He served as President of the City of Eugene Human Rights Presidents’ Council and as a member of the Mayor’s Human Rights Task Force. He has taught business ethics and sports marketing, two topics of relevance to this issue, and his scholarly writings have included papers about organizational values and about the ethics of Nike in relation to Asian sourcing. He has traveled extensively in Asia. Last year he served as a member of the University of Oregon Ad Hoc Committee on Trademark Licensee Conduct. He currently is the University of Oregon faculty representative to the Workers Rights Consortium.
Several recent papers on this topicionclude:
Kahle, Lynn R., David M. Boush, and Mark Phelps. (2000). "Good Morning, Vietnam: An Ethical Analysis of Nike Activities in Southeast Asia," Sport Marketing Quarterly, 9(1), 43-52.
Rose, Gregory M., Lynn R. Kahle, and Aviv Shoham (2000). "Role Relaxation and Organizational Culture: A Social Values Perspective." In Neal M. Ashkanasy, Celeste Wilderom, & Mark F. Peterson, Eds. The Handbook of Organizational Culture. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage.
Shoham, Aviv, Kahle, Lynn R., and Rose, Gregory M. (1998). "Born International: Exporting from Day One as an Alternative to Traditional Internationalization." Asian Journal of Business and Entrepreneurship, Vol. 1 (1, Feb.), 1-24.
Bob Kreisher, M.A.
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Communication
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL 33620
Ph. 813-974-2145
Fax. 813-974-6781
rkreishe@chuma.cas.usf.edu
Bob Kreisher works in the Office of Diversity Initiatives and teaches
in the Department of Communication at the University of South Florida.
As an associate of the diversity office he has helped mold a
postmodern approach to diversity that seeks integration and inclusion
at all levels of the university. His dissertation is a study of the
identity work necessary to maintain the profession of organizational
development and training. His interest in Nike pertains both to his
interest in transforming oppositional structures into collaborative
structures (such as this research design aspires to) and his interest
in transforming dependence (such as in the necessity of complying with
codes of conduct) into interdependence. These issues are especially
relevant in the relationship between large corporations from
industrialized nations, such as Nike, and workers and governments in
developing nations.
Nancy E. Landrum
Assistant Professor
Morehead State University
Department of Management & Marketing
UPO 1267; CB 208C
Morehead, KY 40351-1689
n.landrum@morehead-st.edu
website: http://web.nmsu.edu/~nlandrum
There is a call for
papers, "Nike Just In Time: Change Management Research
Methodologies" at http://business.nmsu.edu/mgt/jpub/jocm/calls/nike/index.html
Deadline for submissions: January 1, 2001.
My dissertation, "A QUANTITATIVE AND
QUALITATIVE EXAMINATION OF THE DYNAMICS OF NIKE AND REEBOK
STORYTELLING AS STRATEGY," was a qualitative comparison of Nike
and Reebok letters to shareholders.
Stories are sensemaking narratives of an organization. There are many approaches to narrative analysis (Czarniawska, 1998; Frye, 1957; Lieblich, Tuval-Mashiach, & Zilber, 1998; Reismann, 1993; White, 1973). This dissertation presumes that storytelling is useful in revealing strategic orientation and in revealing when changes between orientations occurred. Stories are particularly useful in showing how individuals or organizations make sense of the world.
From letters to shareholders used as storytelling data, this dissertation attempts to discern Nike and Reebok's strategic posturing and to identify shifts in their strategic posturing over the historical period 1990 to 1999. This dissertation seeks to further organizational narrative as an epistemology and to explore storytelling as a revelation of intended and emergent strategy. Three qualitative narrative analyses and one quantitative analysis are provided.
These analyses combined reflect differing strategic orientations of Nike and Reebok. Nike combines design, cognitive, and entrepreneurial orientations and their entrepreneurial narrative style increased over the decade. Reebok combines planning and entrepreneurial orientations, although the entrepreneurial narrative style dominated their strategic storytelling over the decade. The interpretation of these styles show that Nike's leadership is visionary and they seek to develop competencies and competitive advantage. Their plans center on how they make sense of events, overcome challenges, and bring about stability. They have stable frames of reference to help guide their actions. The centering resonance analysis suggests that it is important to Nike to be considered a good international company.
The interpretation of Reebok's style shows that Reebok's leadership is also visionary and that they develop complex plans for the future. Their plans center on a vision of humanity which seems unrelated to sales, profits, and market share.
Evidence suggests, however, that the two companies' differ in their orientation. Nike's strategic orientation, or public image, as an entrepreneurial company seems to match their strategic intent, or the factual results of their strategic behaviors. Reebok's strategic orientation as an entrepreneurial company does not seem to match their strategic intent, since their market share and sales have declined.
Other work related to Nike:
Publications:
Landrum, N. and Boje, D. (in press). "Nike Kairos: Strategies Just in Time." In U. Haley & F. Richter (Eds.), Asian Post-Crises Management: Corporate and Governmental Strategies for Sustainable Competitive Advantage. London: MacMillan Press.
Landrum, N. and Boje, D. (2000). "An Ethnostatistical Analysis of Nike's Tuck Report." In Biberman, J. & Alkhafaji, A. (Eds.) Business Research Yearbook: Global Business Perspectives, Vol. VII, International Academy of Business Disciplines, pp. 614-618. Saline, MI: McNaughton & Gunn Inc.
Presentations:
Landrum, N. (2000, August). "Environmental Rhetoric of Nike." Academy of Management Annual Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Landrum, N. (1999, April). "Does Nike 'Just Do It'?: A Reexamination of Nike Factory Workers' Pay in Vietnam." Graduate Arts and Research Symposium, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM.
Works under review:
Landrum, N. and Boje, D. "Environmental Rhetoric of Nike," Journal of Organizational Change Management.
Works in progress:
Landrum, N., Boje, D., and Daniel, D. "An Empirical and Rhetorical Analysis of Nike's Vietnamese Wage Study."
Calls for Papers:
Nike Just In Time: Change Management Research Methodologies
Sanjay T. Menon,
Ph.D.menons@clarkson.edu
Director, Shipley Center for Leadership and Entrepreneurship
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Organization Studies
Clarkson University, New York
Box 5764
Potsdam, NY 13676
Tel: (315) 268 6458
Fax: (315) 268 3810
e-mail: menons@clarkson.edu
Having worked for a multi-national in a developing country (India), I have a natural interest in the general area of management in developing countries and I have contributed a chapter to a volume on managing in developing countries (see attached resume). I also work in the area of employee empowerment and in my mind the issue of sweatshops is intrinsically linked to empowerment. This was the reason for my preference for study group 3.
My Ph.D. is from McGill University, Montreal, Canada and my specialization is in Organizational Behavior. Papers and book chapters are listed below. I have also many conference presentations which are not listed.
Menon, S. T. (in press). Employee Empowerment: An Integrative Psychological Approach. Applied Psychology – An International Review, 50(1).
Conger, J.A., Kanungo, R.N., & Menon, S.T. (in press). Charismatic Leadership and Follower Outcome Effects. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 21(6).
Menon, S.T. (1999). Psychological Empowerment: Definition, Measurement, and Validation. Canadian Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 31 (3):161-164.
Lee, M.D. & Menon, S.T. (1998). Emergent Family Patterns and Career Outcomes of Male and Female MBA Graduates in Early Career. Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, 15(3): 267-278. [Nominated for Best Paper Award of 1998]
Conger, J.A., Kanungo, R.N., Menon, S.T., & Mathur, P. (1997). Measuring Charisma: Dimensionality and Criterion Related Validity of the Conger-Kanungo Scale of Charismatic Leadership. Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, 14(3): 290-302.
Book Chapters
Menon, S.T. & Borg, I. (1995). Subjective empowerment in organizations: A facet theoretical analysis of an empowerment scale. In J.J. Hox, P.G. Swanborn, & G.J. Mellenbergh (Eds.), Facet Theory: Analysis and Design: 179 - 186. Zeist, The Netherlands: Setos.
Menon, S.T. (1994). Designing work in developing countries. In R.N. Kanungo & M. Mendonça (Eds.), Work Motivation: Models for developing countries: 84-113. New Delhi: Sage.
Work in Progress
Menon, S.T. & Kanungo, R.N. (2000). The Empowerment Grid: Reframing Workplace Empowerment Research.
Nicholas S. Miceli,
Ph.D. n-miceli@onu.edu
Associate Professor of Management
Ohio Northern University
College of Business Administration
Department of Management
525 S. Main Street
Ada, OH 45810
(419) 772-2072 (office, w/voice mail)
n-miceli@onu.edu
nsmiceli@hotmail.com
I have a Doctor of Philosophy Degree from University of Oklahoma, College of Business Administration, Division of Management. My areas are Human Resource Management, Organizational Behavior, International Business and Management Information Systems. I am a member of Academy of Management: Human Resource Management, Research Methods, Management Education, and Health Care Management Divisions.
Relevant Publications:
Dissertation Title: An investigation of bias toward persons with disabilities in employment selection decisions. (Chaired by Dr. Michael Harvey.)
Asbjorn Osland,
Ph.D. aosland@georgefox.edu
Assistant professor of business
George Fox University, Newberg, OR.
386 Livingood Lane, Lake Oswego, OR 97034-5957
Home telephone: (503) 697-3368, Office telephone: (503) 554-2817
E-mail: aosland@georgefox.edu,
Fax: (503) 554-2829
I received my Ph.D. in 1994 from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH. My dissertation was "Total Quality Management in Central America: A Case Study on Leadership and Data-based Dialogue." I have taught in Spanish in MBA week-long seminar in 1998 & 1999, at the Universidad Tomas More in Managua, Nicaragua. I also co-authored a case about the Nike and University of Oregon and their disagreement. It's currently under review.
Pun Ngai, Ph.D. npun@hkucc.hku.hk
Research Assistant Professor
Centre of Asian Studies
University of Hong Kong
Tel: 00852-25172256
Fax: 00852-29155174
Dear Professor Boje,
The research plan is great and wonderful and I am sure it will
contribute
to the improvement of working conditions if the research can be
finally
carried out. I would like to join the research group on studying
"Did Nike
subcontract sweatshops"- both in China and other Asian countries.
I have been working on the foreign-invested factories in China in the
past
five years, and closely work with a NGO, The Chinese Working Women
Network
(CWN), which provides organizing activities for Chinese labour working
in
the international subcontract companies. CWN has a mobile car project
supported by Reebok which offers occupational health services in the
industrial area of South China.
My selected English Publications
1. (1999) "Becoming Dagongmei (working girls): the Politics of
Identity and
Difference in Reform China", The China Journal, No. 42, July.
2. (1999) "Chinese Labour at the End of 20th Century", China
Review 1999.
HK: The Chinese University Press.
3. (2000) "Opening a Minor Genre of Resistance in Reform China:
Scream,
Dream and Transgression in a Workplace", Positions: East Asian
Cultural
Critique, Vol. 8:2, Fall.
4. (forthcoming) Becoming Dagongmei: Body, Identity and Transgression
in
Reform China. Duke University Press.
5. (forthcoming) "Cultural Construction of Labour Politics:
Gender, Kinship
and Ethnicity in a Shenzhen Workplace", in The Chinese Triangle
of
Mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong: Comparative Institutional Analyses.
Greenwood Press.
Hope to work with you all!
Pun Ngai
Linda Perriton,
Ph.D. email rooster@cabsav.demon.co.uk
Lecturer, Centre for Management
University of York
Heslington
YORK YO10 5DD UK
Work +44 1904 433130
Work email: ljp8@york.ac.uk
Home +44 1653 619202 (phone and fax)
Home email: rooster@cabsav.demon.co.uk
Research Background - I specialize in management development and training approaches and I work out of a critical and post-structuralist feminist, qualitative research tradition. I am a member of the Academy of Management and an associate of the UK Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.).
I spent a decade working for one of the UK's top
financial services company as a HR Consultant before joining a growing
independent HR consultancy. As a result I have had experience of
working within all sectors of the economy on HR issues - from private
sector change programmes to work with SMEs and local government
organisations. After completing a Research Studentship at
Lancaster I joined the University of York's Centre for Management as
lecturer, specialising in Human Resource Management. I have published
papers in my main areas of interest - post-positivist management
research methodologies and issues of identity and gender in management
development. My current research is a study of management developers
who claim to practice in a non-orthodox manner within organisations.
- Relevant Publications:
- Perriton, L (1999) Paper Dolls. The provocative and evocative gaze upon women in management development, Gender and Education, Vol. 11, No. 3. pp. 295-307
- Perriton, L (forthcoming) Sleeping with the enemy? The textual turn in management research, International Journal of Social Research Methodology.
Perriton, L (2000) Verandah discourses: critical management education in
organisations. British Journal of Management, Vol 11, No. 3 pp. pp. 227-237
Junya Yimprasert
"Lek" jyimprasert@access.inet.co.th
Phone: + 66 1 617 5491, +66 2 692 7963 Fax: +66 2 692 7963
Coordinator, Thai Labour Campaign
Address: 2001/72 Moo 5, Ratchadapisek Road, Huay Kwang, Bangkok 10320
Telphone number +66 1 617 5491, +66 2 692 7963 Fax: +66 2 692 7963
Email: jyimprasert@access.inet.co.th
Lep is a country expert to all four teams.
Statement "As I am in Thailand and have contacts of the workers here and have many lists of factories. Also I have experienced checking the payroll records and employers time records as well. But it may be difficult for me to enter the factories. I may can only provide information on how to check the record, but will be nice for me to try to enter the factories ground...
My organization has very little funding support and I work mostly as volunteer salary but work full time. So apart from involve in the study team and provide any information in Thailand it would be quite difficult for me to help you in other areas. I am willing to attend workshop or any meeting to discuss about the study, but it has to be sponsored.
I hope to see this project effectively. I monitor Global Alliance movement with the feeling of uncomfortable. They approach many universities to involve with the GA. But GA is trying to avoid talking about labour rights issues by talking about community development, skills development and workers' saving scheme. But that was not the way to solve the problem. The problem in Thailand are low wages, exceeding of overtimes, using subcontractor and sweatshop, distribute orders to the border to use cheap illegal migrant workers who have no law protection, and suppression of unionism and collective bargaining, etc. But GA refused to acknowledge those area of problems. There is no point talking about the TNCs human rights team themselves, they just follow the companies policy and only trying to prevent the case of violations to be known by NGOs and media.