The State-Owned Enterprise as an Identity: The Influence of Institutional Logics on<i>Guanxi</i>Behavior

Chen, Xi

doi:10.1017/mor.2020.14

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“…Prior research integrating informal networks in China and social exchange theory tends to focus more on guanxi , a highly particular and sentimental type of social ties that facilitates the exchange of favor (Bian, 2017). Their discussions on the negative aspects of informal networks are mostly related to favoritism or power abuse (Burzynska & Opper, 2020; Chen, 2020). Our study complements prior research by examining employee advice networks in Chinese firms, where the content of the tie is more instrumental and less sentimental.…”

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Too Much of a Good Thing: Downsides of a Large Social Network and Moderating Effects of Political Skill

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Existing research examining the curvilinear relationship between network centrality and performance tends to focus on the information recipients’ perspective. Focusing on the information providers’ perspective, our study draws upon social exchange theory to demonstrate that the advice-giving centrality-performance relationship for information providers has an inverse U-shape due to decreasing benefits and increasing costs of maintaining more advice-giving ties. We further show that increasing advice-giving centrality increases the likelihood that individuals would become a hindrance to coworkers, as they become bottlenecks impeding efficient workflow. However, our study demonstrates that political skill enables them to overcome the interpersonal challenges associated with high advice-giving centrality. Specifically, individuals with high political skills can better convert advice-giving ties to resources that could assist their cooperation with coworkers, reducing the hindrance they impose. Overall, we provide insights into the trade-off between the benefits and costs of advice-giving ties from a social exchange perspective and examine political skill as an important mitigator of the downsides of large advice-giving networks – a key area that has been hitherto largely unexplored.

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Too Much of a Good Thing: Downsides of a Large Social Network and Moderating Effects of Political Skill

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“…But SOEs are less capable than POEs of transforming these resources into innovations because they are less driven by competition, due to SOEs' adherence to the state logic. And employees in joint ventures between Chinese and foreign firms exhibit less guanxi behavior toward their supervisors than do those in SOEs, indicating that supervisor-subordinate guanxi behavior is deeply related to collectivism and that the state logic continues to guide SOEs (Chen, 2020).…”

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Institutional Logics: Motivating Action and Overcoming Resistance to Change

Haveman,

Joseph-Goteiner,

2023

Manag. Organ. Rev.

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Institutional logics are interrelated sets of cultural elements (norms, values, beliefs, and symbols) that help people and organizations make sense of their everyday activities and order those activities in time and space. In this paper, we describe the rise of a robust literature on institutional logics, which mostly focuses on Western societies. We then describe changes in Chinese society and economy over the past four decades, as it shifted from state-controlled planning and redistribution to market-mediated exchange. We detail how the institutional logics that guide Chinese firms have been transformed in the wake of the economic transition. The state logic, which developed in the Maoist era, valorizes equality, national community, and political stability. Although it is still in evidence, it has been partly supplanted by a market logic that encourages efficiency, competition, and property rights. But this market logic differs from the one that prevails in Western capitalist economies. The Chinese version of the market logic valorizes the central role that the state and the Communist Party continue to play in economic life. Therefore, in the Chinese version of the market logic, efficiency, competition, and property rights are tempered by a continued concern for political stability. We review and summarize the existing literature on institutional logics and Chinese firms, and then identify fruitful lines that future research could take.

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“…In contrast, in contexts like China where there is some inherent degree of compatibility between the market and state logics, the experience of institutional complexity may be less ‘intense’ or problematic. In this case, organizations may adopt blended hybrid structures to accommodate different demands or even harness the potential synergies in the enactment of logic prescriptions (Chen, 2020; Greve & Zhang, 2017; Liu, Zhang, & Jing, 2016; Nee, 1992). The underlying implication is that how institutional logics emerge, cohere, and endure may fundamentally influence their dynamics and the ways in which organizations might manage institutional complexity (Ocasio et al, 2016; Zhang & Luo, 2013).…”

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Commentary on Perspective Article: ‘Institutional Logics: Motivating Action and Overcoming Resistance to Change’ – Heather A. Haveman, David Joseph-Goteiner, and Danyang Li

Raynard,

Greenwood

2023

Manag. Organ. Rev.

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Haveman, Joseph-Goteiner, and Li's (2023) perspective article contributes important insights into China's transition away from central planning and redistribution toward greater market coordination of economic exchange. In our commentary on their insightful article, we build on and extend their arguments in three main ways. First, we discuss how future studies might extend the authors’ work by leveraging the ‘messiness’ of institutional change to explore the cross-level dynamics involved in transforming institutional logics. Second, we build on the authors’ call for more historically grounded, contextualized research on institutional logics to argue that the conditions surrounding logic emergence have important implications for inter-logic dynamics and organizational responses. Third, we build on the authors’ suggestions for future research to underscore the broader consequences of institutional logics and their potential to perpetuate or exacerbate social inequalities and other societal challenges.

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The State-Owned Enterprise as an Identity: The Influence of Institutional Logics onGuanxiBehavior

Cited by 16 publications

References 110 publications

Too Much of a Good Thing: Downsides of a Large Social Network and Moderating Effects of Political Skill

Too Much of a Good Thing: Downsides of a Large Social Network and Moderating Effects of Political Skill

Institutional Logics: Motivating Action and Overcoming Resistance to Change

Commentary on Perspective Article: ‘Institutional Logics: Motivating Action and Overcoming Resistance to Change’ – Heather A. Haveman, David Joseph-Goteiner, and Danyang Li

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