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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Guanxi"”.
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The contemporary role of guanxi in Chinese entrepreneurship.
This thesis explores the contemporary role of guanxi in Chinese entrepreneurship. Although previous research has considered the subject of guanxi and Chinese entrepreneurship, this study aims at providing a deeper and richer understanding of its roles and nature. The study focuses on the …
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Leadership and internal guanxi in Chinese electric motor enterprises
This research explores the nature of guanxi inside Chinese enterprises and considers the implications for leadership at a time when Western leadership models are growing in dominance, and Eastern cultural norms are still in existence. The literature on guanxi is extensive, but the lack of its …
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Guanxi and Leader -Member Exchange in the Chinese Context
Guanxi (personal connections or relationships) is a pervasive element of Chinese culture that shares a discriminating attribute with Leader-member Exchange (LMX). This commonality between guanxi and LMX leads to a proposition that leaders might differentiate their members based on their guanxi. In …
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The Influence of Social Capital and Guanxi on Organizational Learning and Innovation in SMEs.
… the effect and development of social capital and guanxi on internal social interactions and collective learning; 2) the comparison of different social networks through the data in family and non-family businesses; and 3) the efficiency of learning and innovation under different social networks. I …
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Creative networks in Guanxi Land: a study of social networking related to Shanghai Expo 2010
Entering the twentieth-first century, post-Mao China continues its considerable transformation. The central theme of this research lies in the examination of social networking through a case study of Shanghai Expo 2010. It is an analysis of the forms of networking in the formation of Shanghai as a …
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Leadership, control at work, supervisor-subordinate guanxi and psychological ownership: A longitudinal study in China
… among leadership, perceived control, personal guanxi and psychological ownership in China with two data collection points separated by a six-month interval (N= 971 at Time 1, N=201 at Time 2), and to examine the relationship between leadership styles (transformational and paternalistic …
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Guanxi (关系) fenomeno vaidmuo šiuolaikinėje Kinijos darbo kultūroje Xi Jinping vadovaujamų antikorupcinių iniciatyvų metu /
This thesis explores the guanxi phenomenon in contemporary Chinese work culture, emphasizing its historical roots, philosophical underpinnings, and practical manifestations. It contrasts guanxi with Western networking practices to highlight its unique characteristics and significance. The study …
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Spectacle as Myth: Guanxi, the relational and the urban quotidian in contemporary Chinese art (2005-2008)
This thesis is an interrogation of the spectacle of Chinese contemporary art and the concept of a Chinese modernity, in terms of the legacy from the Communist era, China's social fabric and its urban quotidian. It contributes to knowledge in a way of understanding Chinese contemporary art that is …
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Making public relations personal : an exploratory study of the implications of palanca and guanxi on international public relations
… on one's behalf by relatives or friends. Guanxi, or personal connection, is a traditional practice of relationship marketing in the Chinese community. The literature review for the study examined the connection between cultural dimensions and this conceptualization of social networking in …
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Porter's strategy and the influence of guanxi and government policies in small and medium-sized pharmaceutical companies in China
… non-market factors of government policies and guanxi are deemed critical and yet absent within one of his models. Here, Porter’s Five Forces model is extended to include the two forces of guanxi and government policies. The subsequent "seven forces" model arises from examining SMPCs' strategy …
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Guanxi 2.0: social capital within a cultural context revealed by the use of social media by Chinese international students
… methods, selectively developing and maintaining guanxi, obtaining necessary helps and supports by mobilising social resources in the network. In the process of network construction, the specific behavioural strategies of Chinese students are a mixture of instrumental and emotional motivations. In …
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The mediating effect of trust in supervisor and loyalty to supervisor between superior-subordinate Guanxi and OCB in the People's Rebublic of China
… the relationships among supervisor-subordinate guanxi, trust in supervisor, loyalty to supervisor and subordinates’ organisational citizenship behaviour. This study applied a questionnaire survey as a data collection method based on a convenience sampling technique involving 303 employees and …
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Same Kentucky Chicken, Different Taste: Cross-cultural Leadership Studies at KFC in Beijing
… behavior model - Initiation, Consideration, and Guanxi. The Initiation-Consideration model has dominated leadership behavior research in Western literature (e.g., Yukl 1994), whereas this study recognizes that Guanxi behavior is an important concept in Chinese values and that it should be …
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The Characteristics of Sino-Taiwanese Joint Ventures in the People's Republic of China
… in particular to investigate the role played by guanxi (interpersonal relationships) in their formation and in the way they function. The research shows that guanxi enhances the effectiveness of Taiwanese joint venture partners by overcoming unanticipated external environmental factors and …
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An investigation of the structural relationships among employee autonomous motivation, job performance, and satisfaction at international hotel chains in China
… enjoy good job satisfaction and develop positive guanxi with their supervisors; fifthly, transformational leadership has a strong impact on the development of positive supervisor-subordinate guanxi; finally, employee job performance mediated the relationship between employee autonomous motivation …
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Interaction effects on product development networks in China
… of both the business network and the guanxi network approaches as parallel mechanisms or cross-cutting patterns of explaining evolution of business relationships. This research highlights how an Industrial Marketing and Purchasing (IMP) approach can be useful to interpret interaction …
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Teamwork in Chinese Organizations: A New Concept and Framework
… teams. This study also examines the influence of guanxi---an important Chinese cultural value that emphasizes exchange and reciprocity in relationships---on teamwork in Chinese organizations.</p> <p>A model of teamwork was created and tested in China. This model of teamwork includes the following …
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Exploring the concepts and practices of relationship marketing within Taiwanese banks.
… and in particular the connection RM has with guanxi, the personal relationship or connections found in Chinese based cultures. This thesis adopts a broad perspective of RM from Western theories to explore the concepts and practices in Taiwanese banks. Using the existing definitions of RM, a …
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Accounting for the Gender Income Gap in Urban China
… capital (including education and health), guanxi (social connections), housework, and employment in different sectors of the economy influence the income gap between men and women in urban China when traditional, socialist, and market mechanisms are all present. The data were collected from …
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Resonant China: Transnational Music-making and the Construction of the Public, 1934-1958
… of mechanisms such as quanzi (circle) and guanxi (relation/connection/tie), this dissertation takes departure from the orthodox music historiography based on (de)coloniality and Sino-Western binary; instead, it highlights multi-directional transmission of knowledge and therefore …
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