...Jiayuan Liu Purpose This study aims to explore how stakeholders leverage their guanxi and structural holes to promote knowledge mobilization to increase the performance of sci-tech achievement transformation. Design/methodology/approach This study conducted questionnaires, a social...

...Guohua Cao; Jing Zhang Purpose This study aims to combine two fraud-related streams of the literature on guanxi and overconfidence into an integrated framework, which is the fraud triangle, to interpret the mechanism of fraud commission and detection. Design/methodology/approach A bivariate...

...Liang Zhao; Tsvi Vinig Purpose This paper aims to examine different hypotheses concerning the effects of guanxi on the reward-based crowdfunding project fundraising. Specifically, this study provides new insights into how guanxi and guanxi intensity may affect reward-based crowdfunding success...

... venture performance through guanxi network, and also examine how environmental turbulence affects the influencing mechanism. Design/methodology/approach This paper follows an empirical design. Data are collected from a survey administered to entrepreneurs in new ventures of China. Regression...

... the limits of specific dimensions. Moreover, this study addresses government policies and “Guanxi culture” specific to China that provide new insights into how firms’ collaborative innovation is improved from the perspectives of business–governmental relations and social networks. The internationalization...

...Yidan Shi; Ming Cheng Purpose Guanxi is an influential factor of doing business in China. This research focuses on a specific guanxi type, political connection and studies the impact of political connection on corporate value. Moreover, in the technology innovation studies, few studies have...

... of Chinese people perceive and process guanxi. Specifically, this paper outlines the mechanism of guanxi from a culture perspective. Cultures significantly affect local people behavior. Design/methodology/approach – A mixed-methods survey (Study 1) – analyzed with one-way ANOVA – and interview (Study 2...

... companies (Hoholm and Olsen, 2012). Trust is endowed in well-established informal networks within and across companies (John, 2011), and this is a critical element in Chinese informal networks, or Guanxi (Jun and Si, 2010). Many multinationals count on open innovation as a promising tool...

...Michèle Akoorie; Melody P.M. Chong; Ping Ping Fu; Yu Fan Shang Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the existence of relational power which is derived from an indigenous Chinese construct – guanxi. The authors also test the hypotheses of relational power with two well...

...Michèle Akoorie; Fangcheng Tang; Xinsheng Ke Purpose The aim of this paper is to examine how the co‐evolution of two order systems‐guanxi networks and legal system, i.e. a dual order system‐has shaped the growth of China's SMEs. From an institutional perspective, one proposition suggested...