UID:
almafu_9959240419802883
Format:
1 online resource (xvii, 275 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-107-12552-9
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1-280-43398-1
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0-511-17700-3
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0-511-04230-2
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0-511-15788-6
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0-511-30474-9
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0-511-49957-4
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0-511-04529-8
Series Statement:
Structural analysis in the social sciences ; 21
Content:
Guanxi, translated as 'social connections,' or 'social networks,' is among the most important studied phenomena in China today. Guanxi lies at the heart of China's social order, its economic structure, and its changing institutional landscape. It is considered important in every realm of life, from politics to business, and officialdom to street life. This volume offers scholarly thinking on the subject by top China sociologists whose work on guanxi has been influential and by scholars offering insights on the topic. The authors examine the role of guanxi in: business decisions among managers and entrepreneurs; the decisions and practices of workers; the construction of new legal institutions; the new social order. Scholars and students of China will find this a rich source of detailed information on the workings of Chinese social relationships and a valuable, new interpretation of the meaning and place of guanxi today.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Practices of guanxi production and practices of ganqing avoidance / Andrew Kipnis -- Information asymmetries and the problem of perception: the significance of structural position in assessing the importance of guanxi in China / Doug Guthrie -- Beyond dyadic social exchange: guanxi and third-party effects / Yi-min Lin -- Guanxi in business groups: social ties and the formation of economic relations / Lisa A. Keister -- Business-state clientelism in China: decline or evolution? / David Wank -- Institutional holes and job mobility processes: guanxi mechanisms in China's emergent labor markets / Yanjie Bian -- Youth job searches in urban China: the use of social connections in a changing labor market / Amy Hanser -- Face, norms, and instrumentality / Scott Wilson -- Guanxi and the PRC legal system: from contradiction to complementarity / Pitman B. Potter -- "Idle talk": neighborhood gossip as a medium of social communication in reform era Shanghai / James Furrrer -- Networking guanxi / Barry Wellman, Wenhong Chen, and Doug Weizhen.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-53031-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-81233-X
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511499579
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