“…After all, things similar to nepotism exist in many parts of the world, for example, Guanxi in China (Chua, Morris, & Ingram, 2009;Lovett, Simmons, & Kali, 1999) and blat in Russia (Michailova & Worm, 2003;Puffer, McCarthy, & Boisot, 2010). Prior studies have addressed nepotism in places such as Italy (Scoppa, 2009), eastern Europe (Silverman & Case, 2001), China (Redfern & Crawford, 2010), Taiwan (Yeh, Lee, & Woidtke, 2001), Mexico (Boutilier, 2009) and the former Soviet bloc (Osipian, 2010). Bellow (2003) even discusses the historic prevalence of nepotism in the United States.…”