Personal networking in Russia and China: Blat and guanxi

European Management Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 509-519

  Michailova, Snejina ^a   Worm, Verner ^a  

^a Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Blat; China; Command economy; Differences and similarities between Blat and Guanxi; Guanxi; Market economy; Personal networking; Russia

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041511858     PISSN: 02632373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0263-2373(03)00077-X     Document Type: Article

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