The Practice of Networking: An Ethical Approach

Mêlé, Domènec

doi:10.1007/s10551-010-0602-2

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“…A set of rules should be predefined as to how such issues are handled. i) Externally controlled transparency-related regulations are more effective than that are implemented by an agency itself (Lindstedt and Naurin, 2010).…”

Section: Lack Of Transparency and Accountabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Establishing Rules for Ethicists and Ethics Organizations in Academic Publishing to Avoid Conflicts of Interest, Favoritism, Cronyism and Nepotism

Silva¹,

Katavić²,

Dobránszki³

et al. 2019

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The first author has been critical of several aspects related to COPE and has questioned the ICMJE in public. VK served, until 2011, as the Research Integrity Editor in the Croatian Medical Journal and as the president of the Croatian national Committee for Ethics in Science and Higher Education. Since 2015, VK has served as an ethics expert for the evaluation of FP7 and H2020 projects with the European Commission. The authors declare no other conflicts of interest.

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Section: Lack Of Transparency and Accountabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Establishing Rules for Ethicists and Ethics Organizations in Academic Publishing to Avoid Conflicts of Interest, Favoritism, Cronyism and Nepotism

Silva¹,

Katavić²,

Dobránszki³

et al. 2019

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“…Scholars have acknowledged the importance of decision makers' perceptions in deciding to engage in particular actions. For instance, individuals' perception of uncertainty within their environment will have an impact on internal and external networking activities (Sawyerr 1993) which may include ethically questionable practices such as gratuity and bribery (Mele 2009). Similarly, managers' perceptions of financial constraints and of competition intensity in a market influence firms' decision to bribe (Martin et al 2007).…”

Section: Ethical Issues: Objective or Constructedmentioning

confidence: 99%

Contextualizing Corruption: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Studying Corruption in Organizations

Pertiwi

2018

Administrative Sciences

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This paper aims to establish how organization and management research, an extensive field that has contributed a great deal to research on corruption, could apply insights from other disciplines in order to advance the understanding of corruption, often considered as a form of unethical behavior in organizations. It offers an analysis of important contributions of corruption research, taking a 'rationalist perspective', and highlights the central tensions and debates within this vast body of literatures. It then shows how these debates can be addressed by applying insights from corruption studies, adopting anthropological lens. The paper thus proposes a cross-disciplinary approach, which focuses on studying corruption by looking at what it means to individuals implicated by the phenomenon while engaging in social relations and situated in different contexts. It also offers an alternative approach to the study of corruption amidst claims that anti-corruption efforts have failed to achieve desirable results.

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“…We have demonstrated that cronyism will have negative consequences for individuals and organizations. In particular, cronyism damages employee trust and perceptions of justice (Melé ). Furthermore, management is viewed as less trustworthy by employees when HR decisions are based on guanxi (Chen, Chen and Xin ).…”

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“…Khatri and Tsang () assert that cronyism negatively affects job satisfaction, organizational commitment, organizational performance, and overall morale, but positively affects the negative behaviors of ingratiation and organizational inertia. Several scholars argue that cronyism is contrary to distributive justice, which applies objective criteria in allocating rewards, thus promoting equality and avoiding favoritism (Khatri and Tsang ; Melé ; Pelletier and Bligh ). Through a survey of 76 employees in a southern California government agency, Pelletier and Bligh () found that employees’ perceptions of cronyism were articulated as top leaders giving preferential treatment to ingroup members.…”

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Leader–follower guanxi: an invisible hand of cronyism in Chinese management

Zhang

Gill

2018

Asia Pac J Human Res

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Guanxi social networks are part of the fabric of Chinese society and central to every aspect of Chinese life including work. The relationship between guanxi and cronyism has been researched and discussed by scholars in supervisor–subordinate guanxi (SSG) studies. However, SSG cannot explain the full extent of cronyism in Chinese management, which usually encompasses a network of actors including a supervisor, a subordinate, a third party (called ‘leader’) who has a higher ranking than a subordinate, and possibly an intermediary between a leader and a supervisor in the same organization. Consequently, this paper develops a new construct leader–follower guanxi (LFG) to explain cronyism in Chinese management. LFG is defined as the existence of direct particularistic (ingroup) ties associated with a particular set of differentiated behavioral obligations based on social norms between a leader and a follower in the same organization. We examine the relationship between LFG and cronyism in Chinese organizations and propose that LFG will be positively associated with cronyism. We then use Chinese ‘face’ theory (mianzi and lian) to illustrate how LFG engenders cronyism in Chinese management. We assert that LFG serves as an invisible hand of cronyism in Chinese organizations. Finally, we consider how to develop leadership and HR practices that prevent cronyism in Chinese organizations.

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The Practice of Networking: An Ethical Approach

Abstract: cronyism, network misconduct, network ethics, virtue ethics, practice of networking, social networks,

Cited by 37 publications

References 89 publications

Establishing Rules for Ethicists and Ethics Organizations in Academic Publishing to Avoid Conflicts of Interest, Favoritism, Cronyism and Nepotism

Establishing Rules for Ethicists and Ethics Organizations in Academic Publishing to Avoid Conflicts of Interest, Favoritism, Cronyism and Nepotism

Contextualizing Corruption: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Studying Corruption in Organizations

Leader–follower guanxi: an invisible hand of cronyism in Chinese management

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