Embedding social networks: How guanxi ties reinforce Chinese employees' retention

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 188-202

  Hom, Peter W ^a   Xiao, Zhixing ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHINA EUROPE INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL   (China)

Author keywords

China; Guanxi; High commitment human resource system; Network constraint; Turnover

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053276346     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2011.06.001     Document Type: Article

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