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 Prof. Meiling Wong Taiwan National Chinyi University of Technology |
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| Title: Guanxi Management in Complex Adaptive Systems | |
| Abstract: In China, guanxi is the basis on which Chinese exchange a lifetime of favors, resources, and business leverage. Guanxi is considered a unique construct and a product of Confucian values and the contemporary political and socioeconomic system in Chinese society. With its cultural embeddings guanxi, as the social norm of conduct, functions as complex adaptive systems that expand and interconnect to become well-knit social networks; meanwhile the functions of well-fixing and self-reinforcement of the guanxi networks (chuens) are synergetically activated internally, externally, and interactively, which shows their extreme flexibility of adaptation. Taking as a case study an outside direct investment (ODI) Taiwanese firm in China, we address and conduct a survey to examine the effect of guanxi on management. Results of the research suggest that guanxi is not limited to interpersonal links; it is also the switch that activates social networks and that reconciles interpersonal and internetwork mismatches to influence management efficacy. KEY WORDS: culture, guanxi, complex adaptive systems | |
| Biography: Dr. Meiling Wong is currently a distinguished Associate Professor of Taiwan National Chinyi University of Technology. Certified with dozens of international licenses, she is positioned as the Industrial Consultant of the Certiplat Limited and the Guidance Counselor of the Professional Certification Committee. She has published research articles in SSCI journals, including Journal of American Journal of Economics and Sociology and Journal of Business Ethics as well as others, The International Journal of Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations and Chinese Management Studies, among others. She also serves as a regular paper reviewer for the above journals. Her recent research interests include Guanxi Management Theory, Service Quality, Cross-cultural Enterprise Operation, Human Resource Management, Organizational Culture, Leadership and Empowerment. | |
