Title: Guanxi and professional leadership in contemporary Sino-American joint ventures in mainland China
Abstract: In Sino-American joint ventures in mainland China, cross-cultural differences regarding the relational components can produce misunderstanding and conflict. The Chinese relational system called Guanxi can render Western leadership relations such as articulated in Leader-member Exchange Theory (LMX), compromised. We examine the roles of a post modern organization career-based leadership relationship (LMX) and the Confucianism supported feudal/family-based relationship (guanxi) in building successful organizational cultures in contemporary mainland China. We discuss the weakening of traditional guanxi by the events of the last fifty years. Recommendations for synthesizing the two different relational components into a third culture are offered and discussed.
Publication Year: 1997
Publication Date: 1997-12-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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