Supervisor-subordinate guanxi: Developing a three-dimensional model and scale

Management and Organization Review

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 375-399

  Chen, Ying ^a   Friedman, Ray ^a   Yu, Enhai ^b   Fang, Weihua ^c   Lu, Xinping ^d  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CHINA ELECTRIC POWER UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d CAPITAL UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (China)

Author keywords

Guanxi scale; Leader member exchange; Supervisor subordinate guanxi

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350502868     PISSN: 17408776     EISSN: 17408784     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-8784.2009.00153.x     Document Type: Article

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