Chris Smith

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• 2024

  Overcoming Institutional Immobility? Evaluating Employment Outcomes of Repatriated Chinese Migrants from Overseas Civil Engineering Projects

  Zheng, Y., Xing, M., Zhang, L. E. & Smith, C., 2024, (Submitted) In: Human Resource Management Journal.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• 2023

  Mobility Capability and Society: Chinese Capital and Employment Diversity in Europe

  Zheng, Y. & Smith, C., 2023, (Submitted) In: European Journal of Industrial Relations.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Reproducing a White Elite: The Chief Officers’ ‘Club’ in the London Metropolitan Police Service

  Clarke, A. & Smith, C., 25 Sept 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Work, Employment and Society. 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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• Where’s the ‘Human’ in Human Resource Management? Managing Work in the 21st Century

  Smith, C. & Gold, M., 2023, 1st ed. UK: Bristol University Press. 452 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book
• 2022

  Making Agency Work: Two Labour Regimes in a UK Logistics Workplace

  Smith, C. & Zheng, Y., Nov 2022, In: Work in Global Economy. 2, 2, p. 226-247 22 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• 2020

  Clase y precarización: una unión desdichada en la formación de la clase trabajadora china

  Smith, C. & Pun, N., 1 Jul 2020, (In preparation) Work, Employment and Society. Argentina

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• Variety of Capital? Chinese Multinational Corporations in Europe

  Zheng, Y. & Smith, C., 6 May 2020, In: Made in China: A Quarterly on Chinese Labour, Civil Society, and Rights. 5, 1, p. 170-173 4 p.

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• 2019

  Book Review: Ching Kwan Lee, The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor, and Foreign Investment in Africa

  Smith, C., 2019, 2 p. Sage.

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• Book Review Symposium: Ulrich Jürgens and Martin Krzywdzinski, New Worlds of Work: Varieties of Work in Car Factories in the BRIC Countries

  Smith, C., 3 Jan 2019, (E-pub ahead of print) Work, Employment and Society. p. 1-3 3 p.

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• The Emerging Industrial Relations of China, edited by William Brown and Chang Kai. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2017, 266 pp

  Smith, C., Jun 2019, British Journal of Industrial Relations. 2 ed. Vol. 57. p. 416-418 3 p. 2

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Other contribution

• The lean labour process: Global diffusion, societal effects, contradictory implementation

  Smith, C. & Vidal, M., 2019, International Handbook of Lean Organization. Janoski, T. & Lepadatu, D. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

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• Tiered expatriation: A social relations approach to staffing multinationals

  Zheng, Y. & Smith, C., 17 Sept 2019, In: Human Resource Management. 58, 5, p. 489-502 14 p.

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• 2018

  'Chicken and Duck Talk': Life and Death of Language Training at a Japanese Multinational in China

  Zheng, Y. & Smith, C., 1 Oct 2018, In: Work, Employment & Society. 32, 5, p. 887-905 19 p.

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• Class and Precarity: An Unhappy Coupling in China’s Working Class Formation

  Smith, C. & Pun, N., 1 Jun 2018, In: Work, Employment & Society. 32, 3, p. 599-615 17 p.

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• Managing Multinational Companies in Asia

  Zheng, Y. & Smith, C., 2018, Routledge Handbook of Human Resource Management in Asia. Cooke, F. L. & Kim, S. (eds.). 1 ed. New York: Routledge

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• 2017

  Applying Critical Realism to the MNC: Exploring New Realities in Staffing and Expatriation

  Rees, C. & Smith, C., 2017, In: Research in the Sociology of Organizations. 49, p. 265-293 29 p.

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• Capital and the Labour Process

  Thompson, P. & Smith, C., 1 Mar 2017, Reading ‘Capital’ Today . Schmidt, I. & Fanelli, C. (eds.). UK: Pluto Press, p. 116-137 29 p.

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• Chinese Multinational Corporations in Europe: Racing to the Bottom?

  Zheng, Y. & Smith, C., 1 Jul 2017, In: Made in China: A Quarterly on Chinese Labour, Civil Society, and Rights. 2, 3, p. 26-31 6 p.

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• Class and Precarity in China: A Contested Relationship

  Smith, C. & Pun, N., 2017, In: Made in China: A Quarterly on Chinese Labour, Civil Society, and Rights. 2, 4, p. 32-35 4 p.

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• Management control and Expatriatisation – the Case of Chinese MNCs abroad

  Smith, C. & Zheng, Y., 1 May 2017, p. 0-23, 23 p.

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• New voyages in search of treasure: China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO) in Europe

  Zheng, Y. & Smith, C., 1 Sept 2017, Chinese investment in Europe: corporate strategies and labour relations. Brussels: The European Trade Union Institute, p. 231-250 29 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• System, society and dominance effects in the adoption of tele-health: A tri-country comparison

  Russell, B., Smith, C., Valsecchi, R. & Andersson Bäck, M., 1 Aug 2017, In: Economic and Industrial Democracy. 38, 3, p. 425-447 23 p.

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• 2016

  CHINA AT WORK: A Labour Process Perspective on the Transformation of Work and Employment in China

  Smith, C. & Liu, M., 1 Mar 2016, London: Palgrave. 400 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Chinese MNCs’ globalization, work and employment

  Smith, C. & Zheng, Y., 7 Mar 2016, Flexible workforces and low profit margins: electronics assembly between Europe and China. Drahokoupil, J., Andrijasevic, R. & Sacchetto, D. (eds.). Brussels: The European Trade Union Institute, p. 67-92 26 p.

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• In Search of the Labour Process Perspective in China

  Smith, C. & Liu, M., Mar 2016, China at Work: A Labour Process Perspective on the Transformation of Work and Employment in China. Liu, M. & Smith, C. (eds.). London: Palgrave, p. 1-30 30 p.

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• Reconceptualise Expatriation by Analysing the Capital and Labour Power in MNCs: Evidence from Chinese MNCs Abroad

  Zheng, Y. & Smith, C., 1 Jul 2016, p. 1-32. 32 p.

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• The Management of Labour in Chinese MNCs Operating Outside of China: a Critical Review

  Smith, C. & Zheng, Y., 1 Mar 2016, China at Work: A Labour Process Perspective on the Transformation of Work and Employment in China. Liu, M. & Smith, C. (eds.). London: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 361-388

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• 2015

  Continuity and Change in Labor Process Analysis Forty Years After Labor And Monopoly Capital

  Smith, C., 1 Sept 2015, In: Labor Studies Journal. 40, 3, p. 222-242 21 p.

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• Rediscovery of the Labour Process

  Smith, C., 1 Dec 2015,  Sage Handbook of the Sociology of Work and Employment . Edgell, S., Gottfried, H. & Granter, E. (eds.). Sage, 26 p.

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• Source criticism, corporate history and corporate social responsibility: Revisiting the history of Cadbury

  Rowlinson, M., Hassard, J. & Smith, C., 1 Jul 2015, p. 1-9. 9 p.

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• Working for two bosses: Student interns as constrained labour in China

  Smith, C. & Chan, J., 1 Feb 2015, In: Human Relations. 68, 2, p. 305–326 22 p.

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• 2014

  Critical Realism and Interviewing Subjects

  Smith, C. & Elger, T., 2 Jan 2014, Studying Organizations Using Critical Realism: A Practical Guide. Edwards, P., O’Mahoney, J. & Vincent, S. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 109-131 22 p.

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• Critical Realism and Interviewing Subjects

  Smith, C. & Elger, T., 20 Mar 2014, Studying Organizations Using Critical Realism: A Practical Guide. Edwards, P., O’Mahoney, J. & Vincent, S. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Critical realism and social research

  Rees, C. & Smith, C., Jul 2014, (Unpublished) ESRC South East Doctoral Training Centre (SEDTC) Annual Postgraduate Conference. Egham

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Other contribution
• 2013

  Working for two bosses: exploring the paradox of interned student labour in China

  Smith, C. & Chan, J., 14 Feb 2013, School of Management Royal Holloway University of London, p. 1-25, 25 p.

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• 2012

  Critical Realism and Interviewing Subjects

  Smith, C. & Elger, T., 2012, The School of Management, Royal Holloway University of London, 31 p. (School of Management Working Papers; no. WP-1208).

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• Tele-nursing: the English and Swedish Cases

  Chris Smith, Raffaella Valssechi, Monica Andersson Bäck and Per Sederblad, Valsecchi, R., Andersson Bäck, M. & Sederblad, P., 2012, (School of Management, Royal Holloway University of London Working Paper Series SoMWP–1203).

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• The practice of teamwork in health industry call centres

  Valsecchi, R., Wise, S., Mueller, F. & Smith, C., 2012, In: Employee Relations. 34, 3, p. 288 - 305 18 p., 3.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• 2010

  Debating Labour Process Theory and the Sociology of Work

  Thompson, P. & Smith, C., 2010, Working Life: Renewing Labour Process Analysis. Thompson, P. & Smith, C. (eds.). 1st edition ed. London: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 11-28 18 p.

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• Dormitory labour regimes and the labour process in China: New workers in old factory forms

  Smith, C. & Pun, N., 2010, Handbook of Employment and Society: Working Space. McGrath-Champ, S., Rainnie, A. & Herod, A. (eds.). 1st ed. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, p. 228-248 20 p.

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• Employment Relations at the Workplace Level in China: Two Contrasting Cases

  Zheng, Y. & Smith, C., Mar 2010, (Working Papers; no. SoMWP1001).

  Research output: Working paper

• Go with the Flow: Labour Power Mobility and Labour Process Theory

  Smith, C., 2010, Working Life: Renewing Labour Process Analysis. thompson, P. & smith, C. (eds.). first ed. Palgrave Macmillan, p. 269-296 28 p.

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• Introduction: Labour Process Theory in Retrospect and Prospect

  Thompson, P. & Smith, C., 2010, Working Life: Renewing Labour Process Analysis. Thompson, P. & Smith, C. (eds.). London: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 1-10 10 p. (Critical Perspectives on Work and Employment).

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• Working Life: Renewing Labour Process Analysis

  Thompson, P. (ed.) & Smith, C. (ed.), 2010, Palgrave.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book
• 2009

  Creative Industries & Labour Process Analysis

  Smith, C. & McKinlay, A., 2009, Creative Labour: Working in Creative Industries. Smith, C. & McKinlay, A. (eds.). first ed. London: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 3-28 25 p. (Critical Perspectives on Work and Employment).

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• Creative Labour: Working in the Creative Industries

  Smith, C. (ed.) & McKinlay, A. (ed.), 29 Jan 2009, 1st ed. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 284 p.

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• Creative Labour: Content, Contract and Control

  Smith, C. & McKinlay, A., 2009, Creative Labour: Working in Creative Industries . First ed. London: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 29-50 21 p. (Critical Perspectives on Work and Employment).

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• Labour Power and Labour Process: Contesting the Marginality of the Sociology of Work

  Thompson, P. & Smith, C., Oct 2009, In: Sociology. 43, 5, p. 913-930 18 p.

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• Resistance in Management Transfer: A case of Japanese synthetic fibre plant in China

  Zheng, Y. & Smith, C., 6 Apr 2009.

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• Waving, Not Drowning: Explaining and Exploring the Resilience of Labor Process Theory

  Thompson, P. & Smith, C., 2009, In: Employee Responsibility and Rights Journal. 21, 3, p. 253–262 19 p., 21.

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