Cultural and Organizational Antecedents of Guanxi: The Chinese Cases

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 441-451

  Lin, Liang Hung ^a  

^a NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Confucianism; guanxi; organizational ethical climate

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953061772     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-010-0662-3     Document Type: Article

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