Guanxis Effect on Administrative Ethical Decision-making-An Empirical Study of 188 Cases Based on Content Analysis
China is a Guanxi (Relationship)-oriented society, some researches have shown that guanxi has some negative impacts on business ethical decisionmakings, but seldom evidence of its impacts on administrative ethical decision-makings, as a hot topic, has been proved in academic circles. This paper aims to explore whether and how guanxi will influence administrative ethical decision-makings, based on systematical reviewing of available literatures of administrative ethical decisionmakings, guanxi, and guanxis influences on ethical decision-makings. We selected 188 unethical decisionmaking cases from the 2157 cases reported during 2006 and 2011 on the website of Supreme Peoples Procuratorate of the Peoples Republic of China and that of Ministry of Supervision of the Peoples Republic of China through stratified random sampling Moreover, with SPSS 18.0 we used method of contents analysis to analyze the data. The results support that guanxi affects the ethical decision-makings of administrators adversely and its impacts are also subject to other relevant elements. At last, drawing upon the results of this study and associating with the cultural background of our country, this paper put forward some suggestions on building a regulating mechanism combining internal and external controls together to prevent and deal with administrative unethical decision-makings.
Guanxi Administrative ethical decision-making Unethical decision-making
CHEN Li-jun ZHANG Song-li
School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P.R. China, 310027
国际会议
2012 International Conference on Public Administration(8th)(2012年公共管理国际会议 ICPA)
印度海德拉巴
英文
380-390
2012-10-25（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）