Social Logic as Business Logic: Guanxi, Trustworthiness and the Embeddedness of Chinese Business Practices
This chapter explores the nature of Chinese business practices by looking at their social foundations. We argue that the use of an inter-subjective logic based on the norms of social relationships provides an institutional foundation for economic transactions in Chinese business settings. The logic...
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Main Authors: | CHUNG, Wai Keung, Hamilton, Gary |
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Language: | English |
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Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
2001
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Online Access: | https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/387 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/1386/viewcontent/auto_convert.pdf |
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