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Benefits Of Guan Xi In Chinese Culture

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De Montfort University

BA(HONS) in Business Administration and Management (153-29080)

Business Communications and Academic Skills

Academic year 2015-16

Academic essay assignment

Fong Kai Kit Peter

ID: 5436 3258

Question 6

It is argued that guan xi is an indispensable element in the workplace in Chinese culture. Is it a blessing or a curse to corporate development?

In Chinese society, it is not new knowledge that we need Guan xi in workplace to smooth the corporate development. According to Provis(2004), Guan xi is a relations building process involving ways that exchange benefits, know each other better and commitments between members within the circle. They pass benefits to each other. (p.48). So and Walker(2006) states it is influenced by ‘San Gang’ from long history of …show more content…

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3. Dunfee, T. W. and D. E. Warren. (2001) 'Is Guanxi Ethical? A NormativeAnalysis of Doing Business in China', Journal of Business Ethics, Vol.32(3), pp.l9l-204.

4. Johanna Hoopes(2010) Google Loses Guanxi in China, Available at: http://www.justmeans.com/blogs/google-loses-guanxi-in-china assessed on September 24, 2015

5. Seung Ho Park and Yadong Luo(2001), Guanxi & Organization Dynamics, Networking in Chinese Firms p. 473, Faculty of Management, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersy, USA. School of business Administration, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, USA

6. Writer unknown, List of Case Studies on Strategy-III, IBS Case Development Centre p.25, available at www.ibscdc.org

7. Xin, K. R. and J. L. Pearce. (1996) 'Guanxí: Connections as Substitutes for Formal Institutional Support', Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 39(6), pp. 1641-1658.

8. Yadong Luo(2000) Guanxi and business, Asia-Pacific business series, Singapore World

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