Social connections in China : institutions, culture, and the changing nature of Guanxi /
Institutions, culture, and the changing nature of Guanxi
edited by Thomas Gold, Doug Guthrie, David Wank.
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
- xvii, 275 p. ; 24 cm.
- Structural analysis in the social sciences ; 21 .
1. Practices of guanxi production and practices of ganqing suppression Andrew Kipnis 2. Information asymmetries and the problems of perception: the significance of structural position in assessing the importance of guanxi Doug Guthrie 3. Beyond dyad social exchange: Guanxi and third party effects Lin Yimin 4. Guanxi in business groups: social ties and the formation of economic relations Lisa Keister 5. The significance of the declining significance of guanxi: how networks change in China's market economy David Wank 6. Institutional holes and job mobility processes: guanxi mechanisms in China's emergent labor markets Yanjie Bian 7. Youth job searches in urban China: the use of social connections in a changing labor market Amy Hanser 8. Face, norms, and instrumentality Scott Wilson 9. Guanxi and the PRC legal system: from contradiction to complementarity Pitman Potter 10. 'Idle talk': neighborhood gossip as a medium of social communication in reform era Shanghai James Farrar Final insights: network analysis and the study of guanxi Barry Wellman, Wenhong Chen and Weizhen Dong.