The Chinese Triangle of Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong: Comparative Institutional Analysis

Lin, George C. S.; So, Alvin Y.; Lin, Nan; Poston, Dudley L.

doi:10.2307/4127351

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“…The Chinese generally trust those who have been recommended to them by a trustworthy source -a family member or close friend (Lin, 2001). In this way, interpersonal trust is more 'transferable' in China.…”

Section: Hypothesis 2: Network Density Of Chinese Entrepreneurs Is Grmentioning

confidence: 99%

Comparative Social Capital: Networks of Entrepreneurs and Venture Capitalists in China and Russia

Batjargal

2007

Manag. Organ. Rev.

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I compare networks of entrepreneurs and venture capitalists in China and Russia by examining professional social networks of software entrepreneurs and private equity investors from the perspectives of institutional theory and culture paradigm. In the empirical study, I draw on survey data from Beijing and Moscow based on interviews of 159 software entrepreneurs and 124 venture capital decisions. I found that professional networks of the Chinese software entrepreneurs are smaller, denser and more homogeneous in educational specializations, compared with the networks of Russian entrepreneurs. Furthermore, I found that both ties and interpersonal trust in the referral tie are stronger in China than in Russia.

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Section: Hypothesis 2: Network Density Of Chinese Entrepreneurs Is Grmentioning

confidence: 99%

Comparative Social Capital: Networks of Entrepreneurs and Venture Capitalists in China and Russia

Batjargal

2007

Manag. Organ. Rev.

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“…Lin (2001) long ago suggested that that guanxi should be considered a subset of all relationships. Armed with high-quality data, Burt and Burzynska provide a concrete distinction between guanxi and not- guanxi relations analogous to Granovetter's (1992) conceptual distinction between relational and structural embedding.…”

Section: Iterative Methods Of Residuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Given the network definition of ‘ guanxi ’ relations in China, why wouldn't a similar kind of strong connection exist in the West? Lin (2001) suggests that guanxi is a global phenomenon existing well beyond China. Shouldn't there be guanxi -like relations, for example, among the investment bankers and analysts in Figure 2?…”

Section: Iterative Methods Of Residuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Comparative Network Research in China

Burt

Batjargal

2019

Manag. Organ. Rev.

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Using recent substantive results on China and the West, we highlight some virtues to Mill's method of residues for comparative network research. The result is research that combines the emic-etic approaches discussed by Leung (2009) with the spirit of Whetten's (2009: 49) efforts to make ‘theory borrowing more context sensitive’. We draw on recent comparative research about the competitive advantage enjoyed by network brokers, trust facilitated by embedding a relationship in a closed network, the subset of Chinese relations that constitute guanxi, the idea of American and European guanxi, different business environments maintained by the same network mechanism, cocoon networks, small-world networks, the longer history apparent in Chinese networks, and job search via colleagues, friends, and family. We also illustrate the value of data graphs for the expository value of the method of residuals in comparative network analyses.

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“…This raises new challenges to guanxi studies since China has experienced tremendous transformation in the past century. For example, the main forms of guanxi ties may have transformed from familial and pseudo-familial ties in the pre-Communist era (Liang, 1949/1986), to instrumental particular ties under Mao's regime (Walder, 1986), and to ties of asymmetrical social exchange in post-Mao China (Lin, 2001a). A review of this transformation is available in the literature (Bian, 2001, in press; Bian & Ikeda, 2017).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To qualify this definition, a number of characterizations of guanxi can be suggested. A guanxi tie emerges naturally from kinship ties (Fei 1949/1992), and nonkin ties become guanxi ties when the parties develop pseudo-kin sentiments and obligations to each other (Liang, 1949/1986, Lin, 2001a). Among both kin and nonkin relations, a guanxi tie survives in repeated, rather than one-time, favor exchanges (Yan, 1996).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%