Guanxi Network and Acquisition of External Resources by Business in Mainland China

摘要：

No organization (or economic sector) is self-sufficient. As an open action system, it has to interact with other organizations and acquire resources from them. In China, due to the influence of Confucian culture, business tends to interact with the partners within its guanxi network. This paper discusses how the guanxi network is used as the intermediate for organizations to acquire external resources in mainland China. Business in China tends to get external resources from its guanxi partners or from other no-guanxi organization by taking its guanxi partners/network as the middleman. The main approaches that firms used to acquire external resources are by purchasing, exchanging and setting up joint ventures.

关键词： Approach External resource Guanxi network Resource-based view

作者: Gao Yongqiang

作者单位: School of Management, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, P.R.China, 430074

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 第六届管理学国际会议(Proceedings of ICM2007 the 6th International on Management)

会议地点: 武汉

会议语种:英文

页码: 1296-1301

在线出版日期: 2007-08-03（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）