Guanxi Bases, Xinyong and Chinese Business Networks
Author(s): Tong Chee Kiong and Yong Pit Kee
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Source: The British Journal of Sociology, Vol. 49, No. 1 (Mar., 1998), pp. 75-96
Published by: Blackwell Publishing on behalf of The London School of Economics and Political Science
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Tong Chee Kiong and Yong Pit Kee
Guanxi bases, Xinyong and Chinese business networks
ABSTRACT
This paper, based on fieldwork conducted in Singapore and Malaysia, examines
the social foundations and organizational principles of Chinese business firms,
focusing in particular, on the inclination to incorporate personal relationships in
decision making. It identifies three key aspects of personalism: personal control,
personal guanxi relationships, and interpersonal trust or xinyong. Personal control
is eSected largely through depending on people whom one personally trusts as
this would reduce risks and afford better business control. The paper also exam-
ines the dynamics between guanxi and xinyong, and how these ideals are played
out in reality. A central argument is that economic decisions are not based solely
on market considerations. Rather, they are embedded in the context of larger
social relations and institutional forces which shape, reinforce, as well as chal-
lenge, a set of behaviours or organizational structures.
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这是从一篇文章摘出来的,是文章的开头几段