Social Connections in China : Institutions, Culture, and the Changing Nature of Guanxi.
This volume assesses the evolving role of guanxi (social networks) in China's transforming society.
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Guthrie, Doug. Wank, David. |
| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002. |
| Series: | Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences
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| Local Note: | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES -- FIGURES -- TABLES -- PROLOGUE -- INTRODUCTION -- AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF GUANXI -- DISENTANGLING GUANXI -- SCHOLARSHIP ON GUANXI -- Is Guanxi a Chinese phenomenon? -- The institutional turn in analyses of Guanxi -- Contributions to current scholarship -- 1 PRACTICES OF GUANXI PRODUCTION AND PRACTICES OF GANQING AVOIDANCE -- PRACTICES OF GUANXI PRODUCTION -- THEORIES OF COMMUNICATIVE PRACTICE -- WHAT IS GUANXI? -- What is not Guanxi, or rather, practices of Ganqing avoidance -- CONCLUSIONS -- METHODOLOGICAL AND CONCEPTUAL CONSIDERATIONS -- 2 INFORMATION ASYMMETRIES AND THE PROBLEM OF PERCEPTION: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF STRUCTURAL POSITION IN ASSESSING THE… -- THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS IN THE ANALYSIS OF GUANXI -- Inappropriate data -- Difficulties in operationalizing theory -- Predicting the future -- STRUCTURAL POSITION AND PERCEPTIONS OF GUANXI -- TWO EMPIRICAL EXAMPLES -- The importance of guanxi in hiring practices: The view from the other side -- Conflicting reports on the importance of guanxi in a rationalizing economy -- CONCLUSION -- 3 BEYOND DYADIC SOCIAL EXCHANGE: GUANXI AND THIRD-PARTY EFFECTS -- INSTRUMENTALIZATION OF GUANXI: MECHANISMS AT WORK -- Cultural and relational factors -- The milieu of social exchange under Mao -- Changes in the reform era -- UNEVEN STRUCTURAL CONSTRAINTS: A FURTHER ILLUSTRATION -- Favor-seeking and state agents' vested interests -- Crowded political market -- Collusion and whistle-blowing -- SUMMARY -- NEW SUBSTANTIVE STUDIES OF GUANXI -- 4 GUANXI IN BUSINESS GROUPS: SOCIAL TIES AND THE FORMATION OF ECONOMIC RELATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- THEORETICAL ISSUES -- Manufacturing social indebtedness -- Social relations and economic exchange. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Social relations and economic dependence -- GUANXI IN THE FORMATION OF EXCHANGE TIES IN CHINA -- EMPIRICAL EVALUATION OF LENDING AND TRADE IN BUSINESS GROUPS -- Data -- Methods of analysis -- Results -- CONCLUSIONS -- APPENDIX -- Logistic regression models -- Variables -- 5 BUSINESS-STATE CLIENTELISM IN CHINA: DECLINE OR EVOLUTION? -- THEORETICAL ISSUES -- ENTREPRENEURIAL PERCEPTIONS -- PATTERNS OF COMPETITION AND CLIENTELISM -- Enduring and temporal utilities of guanxi practice -- Business scale and differential networks -- From personal to localistic networks -- CONCLUSION -- 6 INSTITUTIONAL HOLES AND JOB MOBILITY PROCESSES: GUANXI MECHANISMS IN CHINA'S EMERGENT LABOR MARKETS -- FROM GUANXI TO STRONG TIES -- PERSISTENCE OF GUANXI EFFECTS: OBSERVATION FROM 100 JOB CHANGERS -- Subsidiary establishments -- International joint ventures -- Foreign firms -- Domestic private businesses -- Economic entities with ambiguous or mixed-property forms -- Migrant peasant labor in the cities -- VIEWS OF CHINA'S TRANSITION TO LABOR MARKETS -- INSTITUTIONAL HOLES AND GUANXI IN EMERGENT LABOR MARKETS -- Information flow -- Trust-Bridging -- Obligation binding -- GUANXI CAPITAL IN THE ECONOMY OF INSTITUTIONAL HOLES -- 7 YOUTH JOB SEARCHES IN URBAN CHINA: THE USE OF SOCIAL CONNECTIONS IN A CHANGING LABOR MARKET -- GUANXI AND FINDING A JOB -- The rise (and fall?) of guanxi -- Network theory and tie strength -- Guanxi and social ties -- Social connections and youth -- Finding a job in urban China: The 1990s -- Labor market reform and employer demands -- Workplace and regional mobility -- Job specificity and skill marketability -- Guanxi or ties? -- CONCLUSION -- 8 FACE, NORMS, AND INSTRUMENTALITY -- THEORETICAL ISSUES -- VILLAGE LEVEL CHANGES -- Changes in the local economy -- Changes in village guanxi networks -- Shifts in village social exchange. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a House construction and shifting forms of aid -- Agricultural mutual aid -- Cash, geography, and instrumentality -- CONCLUSION -- 9 GUANXI AND THE PRC LEGAL SYSTEM: FROM CONTRADICTION TO COMPLEMENTARITY -- INTRODUCTION -- GUANXI AND CHINESE LEGAL CULTURE -- THE ROLE OF GUANXI IN LEGAL ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOR -- Attitudes about guanxi in domestic legal relations -- Behavior: Guanxi and foreign-related dispute resolution -- Guanxi and judicial behavior -- IMPLICATIONS OF COMPLEMENTARITY OF GUANXI AND LAW: APPLICATION AND THE CASE OF CONTRACT LAW -- CONCLUSION -- 10 "IDLE TALK": NEIGHBORHOOD GOSSIP AS A MEDIUM OF SOCIAL COMMUNICATION IN REFORM ERA SHANGHAI -- INTRODUCTION: GOSSIP AND GUANXI -- A MAOIST NEIGHBORHOOD IN DENGIST SHANGHAI -- STORIES FROM OUR NEIGHBORHOOD -- THE USES OF NEIGHBORHOOD GOSSIP -- Gossip as moral discourse -- Gossip as information medium -- Instrumental uses of gossip networks -- The pragmatics of gossip -- Gender and gossip -- THE CHANGING ECOLOGY OF SHANGHAI'S NEIGHBORHOOD NETWORKS -- CONCLUSION: PRODUCTIVE DISORDER -- CONCLUSIONS -- 11 NETWORKING GUANXI -- THE SOCIAL NETWORK APPROACH -- From metaphor to toolkit -- ANALYZING GUANXI -- THE SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYTIC APPROACH -- From method and metaphor to paradigm and substance -- A network is not always - perhaps not often - a group -- WHOLE NETWORKS -- Patterns of connectivity and cleavage -- Structurally equivalent role relationships -- Indirect ties between persons and organizations -- Personal networks -- STUDYING PERSONAL NETWORKS -- Differentiated ties -- A multi-level approach -- A network society -- REFERENCES -- INDEX. | |
| 520 | |a This volume assesses the evolving role of guanxi (social networks) in China's transforming society. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. | ||
| 590 | |a Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Guangxi Zhuangzu Zizhiqu (China)--Social conditions. | |
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| 700 | 1 | |a Guthrie, Doug. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Wank, David. | |
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