Confucian and Taoist Work Values: An Exploratory Study of the Chinese Transformational Leadership Behavior

Lin, Liang‐Hung; Ho, Yu-Ling; Lin, Wei-Hsin Eugenia

doi:10.1007/s10551-012-1284-8

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“…Confucius constructed the philosophy of Confucianism such as moral order, duty, ceremony, and the respect of family and authority during the Warring States Period (475-221 BCE) (Lin et al 2013). Therefore, Confucianism originated as an "ethical-sociopolitical teaching" during the Spring and Autumn Period, further gradually evolved to be metaphysical and cosmological in Han Dynasty (Craig 1998), and finally became the official state ideology of the Han nationality.…”

Section: Confucianism In Chinamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Also, Zhì suggests that one should balance long-term benefits against short-term benefits, and further, one should not seek for short-term benefits at the expense of long-term benefits (Lin et al 2013). Obviously, although the controlling shareholder can grab short-term interests via expropriating the interests of minority shareholder, minority shareholder expropriation will be harmful to a firm's long-term development and operations.…”

Section: Minority Shareholder Expropriation In Chinamentioning

confidence: 99%

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Does Confucianism Reduce Minority Shareholder Expropriation? Evidence from China

2014

J Bus Ethics

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Using a sample of 12,061 firm-year observations from the Chinese stock market for the period of 2001-2011 and geographic-proximity-based Confucianism variables, this study provides strong evidence that Confucianism is significantly negatively associated with minority shareholder expropriation, implying that Confucianism does mitigate agency conflicts between the controlling shareholder and minority shareholders. This finding suggests that Confucianism has important influence on business ethics, and thus can serve as an important ethical philosophy or social norm to mitigate the controlling shareholder's unethical expropriation behavior. Moreover, my findings reveal that the nature of the ultimate owner attenuates the negative association between Confucianism and minority shareholder expropriation, suggesting that Confucianism's negative impact on minority shareholder expropriation is less pronounced for state-owned enterprises than for non-state-owned enterprises. The above results are robust to a variety of sensitivity tests and my findings are valid after controlling for the potential endogeneity between Confucianism and minority shareholder expropriation.

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Section: Confucianism In Chinamentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Minority Shareholder Expropriation In Chinamentioning

confidence: 99%

Does Confucianism Reduce Minority Shareholder Expropriation? Evidence from China

2014

J Bus Ethics

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“…Considering the significant political and economic isomorphic institutional pressures on business leaders such as Zhu is China, could underlying Taoist beliefs also place a primacy on how their individual decisions affect institutional change towards sustainability. As Lin et al (2012) argue, Taoists have a weak tie to the organization's and society's expectations, traditions and standards and instead follow rules of nature without putting emphasis on artificial affection. Put in another way, if satisfying an organization's and society's expectations could serve the natural environment positively, this would be conducive to such a Taoist orientation.…”

Section: A Taoist Cultural Context: a Synthesis Strategy For Isomorphmentioning

confidence: 99%

The ‘Biophilic Organization’: An Integrative Metaphor for Corporate Sustainability

Jones

2015

J Bus Ethics

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This paper proposes a new organizational metaphor, the 'Biophilic Organization', which aims to counter the bio-cultural disconnection of many organizations despite their espoused commitment to sustainability. This conceptual research draws on multiple disciplines such as evolutionary psychology and architecture to not only develop a diverse bio-cultural connection but to show how this connection tackles sustainability, in a holistic and systemic sense. Moreover, the paper takes an integrative view of sustainability, which effectively means that it embraces the different emergent tensions. Three specific tensions are explored: efficiency versus resilience, organizational versus personal agendas and isomorphism versus institutional change. In order to illustrate how the Biophilic Organization could potentially provide a synthesis strategy for such tensions, healthcare examples are drawn from the emerging fields of Biophilic Design in Singapore and Generative Design in the U.S.A. Finally, an example is provided which highlights how a Taoist cultural context has impacted on a business leader in China to illustrative the significance of a transcendent belief system to such a bio-cultural narrative.Key Words: Biophilic Organisation, Sustainability, Generative Design, Biophilic Design, Taoism. 2 Introduction'We need to enhance our recognition that we are just another biological creature and see ourselves in that way……some of our most alienating work environments, in the sense of separating us from nature, are often in the modern office building where people are in these very bland, hostile environments with no access to windows or any experience of the outside or natural environments. Ironically, if you tried to do that to a caged animal in a zoo, you would violate legal statute, and would be prevented from doing so. We don't allow zoo animals to be in these barren, alienating, unnatural environments. And yet we allow ourselves to be, and it's such a glaring example of how we don't see ourselves like that tiger in the cage, that we're just as much dependent upon those experiential connections as the tiger is. We lose track of that because we see ourselves as somehow apart or separate from nature. We need to maintain that broader understanding of who we are and where we fit into the natural scheme'. (Kellert, 2004)As Hahn et al (2014) argue most scholars in the field seem to agree that corporate sustainability requires firms to address interconnected and interdependent economic, environmental and social concerns at different levels. The begging question with such an espoused 'triple-bottom line'perspective is that what happens when all the 'win-win' solutions have been exhausted and there is a clear conflict between the predominant financial issues and the silent ecological imperative.It is no surprise that the financial bottom line, within the current corporate sustainability 3 discourse, is normally prioritized to instrumentally satisfy the expectations of the shareholders, with the ecological and social subsu...

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“…It is often recognized that modern Chinese and Japanese conceptions of virtue and ethics derive from classical philosophies, such as Confucianism and Daoism (e.g. Du 2015;Hennig 2016;Lin et al 2013;Lu 1997;Romar 2002;Wang and Juslin 2009), and some celebrate a so-called 'cultural renaissance' of traditional values around the world (Wang and Lin 2009). More pertinently, these traditional philosophies influence ways of thinking and how people make sense of organizational practices today (Du 2015;Ma and Tsui 2015;Romar 2002).…”

Section: Gong Qi: An Endogenous Metaphor For a Virtuous Corporationmentioning

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The Inclusiveness and Emptiness of Gong Qi: A Non-Anglophone Perspective on Ethics from a Sino-Japanese Corporation

2019

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This article introduces a non-Anglophone concept of gong qi (communal vessel, 公器) as a metaphor for 'corporation'. It contributes an endogenous perspective from a Sino-Japanese organizational context that enriches mainstream business ethics literature, otherwise heavily reliant on Western traditions. We translate the multi-layered meanings of gong qi based on analysis of its ideograms, its references into classical philosophies, and contemporary application in this Japanese multinational corporation in China. Gong qi contributes a perspective that sees a corporation as an inclusive and virtuous social entity, and also addresses the elusive, implicit, and forever evolving nature of organizational life that is rarely noticed. We propose gong qi can be applied in other organizations and wider cultural contexts to show a new way of seeing and understanding business ethics and organization. Rather than considering virtue as a list of definable individual qualities, we suggest that the metaphor of gong qi reveals how virtue can be experienced as indeterminate, yet immanently present, like the substance of emptiness. This, then allows us to see the virtue of immanence, the beauty of implicitness, and hence, the efficacy of gong qi.

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Confucian and Taoist Work Values: An Exploratory Study of the Chinese Transformational Leadership Behavior

Cited by 101 publications

References 33 publications

Does Confucianism Reduce Minority Shareholder Expropriation? Evidence from China

Does Confucianism Reduce Minority Shareholder Expropriation? Evidence from China

The ‘Biophilic Organization’: An Integrative Metaphor for Corporate Sustainability

The Inclusiveness and Emptiness of Gong Qi: A Non-Anglophone Perspective on Ethics from a Sino-Japanese Corporation

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