Guanxi as the chinese norm for personalized social capital: Toward an integrated duality framework of informal exchange

Handbook of Research on Asian Business

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 62-83

  Li, Peter Ping ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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