Social Connections in China Institutions, Culture, and the Changing Nature of Guanxi

Name: Social Connections in China Institutions, Culture, and the Changing Nature of Guanxi
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ISBN: 9780521530316

ISBN-10: 0521530318

ISBN-13: 9780521530316

Edition: 2002

Authors: Thomas Gold, Doug Guthrie, David L. Wank, Mark Granovetter

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Guanxi, loosely translated as 'social connections' or 'social networks', is among the most important, talked-about and studied phenomena in China today. This volume assesses the evolving role of guanxi in China's transforming society.

Book details

List price: $41.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/5/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English



An introduction to the study of guanxi




Practices of guanxi production and practices of ganqing suppression




Information asymmetries and the problems of perception: the significance of structural position in assessing the importance of guanxi




Beyond dyad social exchange: guanxi and third party effects




Guanxi in business groups: social ties and the formation of economic relations




The significance of the declining significance of guanxi: how networks change in China's market economy




Institutional holes and job mobility processes: guanxi mechanisms in China's emergent labor markets




Youth job searches in urban China: the use of social connections in a changing labor market




Face, norms, and instrumentality




Guanxi and the PRC legal system: from contradiction to complementarity




'Idle talk': neighborhood gossip as a medium of social communication in reform era Shanghai



Final insights: network analysis and the study of guanxi