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This study aims to identify managerial competencies required for successful middle managers in China.

First a questionnaire survey was distributed among MBA and EMBA students at a major university in China, and then two case studies were conducted to collect more in‐depth data.

The findings of this study suggest that team building, communication, coordination, execution and continual learning are critical competencies for the success of middle managers in China. Implications for future research and practices are also discussed.

The literature review shows that although previous leadership competency studies are extensive, little research has been conducted to explore the competencies required for middle managers. This study would contribute to fill the gap in the literature.

This study is intended to investigate the current status of corporate universities in China. It aims to explore the processes and practices of corporate universities in China, and discover the issues and challenges involved in building and running a corporate university in China.

The heads of 11 well‐known corporate universities in China were interviewed. In addition, documentary data were also collected to triangulate with the interview data.

Compared with best practice corporate universities worldwide, the 11 corporate universities in this study have done well in three aspects, namely, learning initiatives support strategy and business goals, strong top management support, and leaders as teachers in management training programs. What needs improvement is the lack of a training evaluation mechanism.

The findings of this study provide a reference point for, and insights into, the processes and practices associated with corporate universities, and afford an opportunity to gain a better understanding of the issues and challenges involved in building and running a corporate university in China.

This study represents one of the first attempts to understand how a corporate university model works in the Chinese context. As such, it helps enrich the literature of corporate universities.

Social media, especially microblog, has become one of the most popular platforms for public opinion dissemination. However, so far few studies have been conducted to explore information dissemination under the mobile environment. This paper aims to introduce the approach to analyze the public opinion information dissemination in mobile social networks.

This paper chooses “network attack” as the research topic and extracts 23,567 relevant messages from Sina Microblogs to study the structure of nodes for public opinion dissemination and the characteristics of propagation paths on mobile internet. Public opinion dissemination is compared on both mobile and non-mobile terminals.

The results reveal the characteristics of public opinion dissemination in mobile environment and identify three patterns of information propagation path. This study concludes that public opinion on mobile internet propagates more widely and efficiently and generates more impact than that on the non-mobile internet.

The methods used in this study can be useful for the government and other organizations to analyze and identify problems in online information dissemination.

This paper explores the mechanism of public opinion dissemination on mobile internet in China and further investigates how to improve public opinion management through a case study related to “network attack.”