Business Leadership Development in China

Shuang Ren is a Lecturer at Deakin Business School, Deakin University, Melbourne, AustraliaRobert Wood is Professor of management at Melbourne Business School, Australia Ying Zhu is Professor and Director of the Australian Centre for Asian Business at the University of South Australia

• 1. Introduction: Reworking Leadership Development in the Context of China’s Transition 2. Chinese Implicit Theories of Leadership: Traditional Roots 3. Chinese Implicit Theory of Leadership: Transitional Context 4. Analytical Fallacies in the Framing of Business Leadership in China 5. The Evolution of Training and Development 6. Patterns of Self-Development: Why and How 7. Patterns of Self-Development: What and so What 8. Concluding Remarks

"This is a well-written monograph on the problems of business leadership in China and the so-called ‘leadership gap’, covering training and development, as well as self-development. It is clearly written and very much to the point." Malcolm Warner, University of Cambridge, Journal of General Management-BOOK REVIEW-CHINA, 2016