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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Table of Contents:
- An introduction to the study of guanxi
- 1. Practices of guanxi production and practices of ganqing suppression
- 2. Information asymmetries and the problems of perception: the significance of structural position in assessing the importance of guanxi
- 3. Beyond dyad social exchange: guanxi and third party effects
- 4. Guanxi in business groups: social ties and the formation of economic relations
- 5. The significance of the declining significance of guanxi: how networks change in China's market economy
- 6. Institutional holes and job mobility processes: guanxi mechanisms in China's emergent labor markets
- 7. Youth job searches in urban China: the use of social connections in a changing labor market
- 8. Face, norms, and instrumentality
- 9. Guanxi and the PRC legal system: from contradiction to complementarity
- 10. 'Idle talk': neighborhood gossip as a medium of social communication in reform era Shanghai
- Final insights: network analysis and the study of guanxi