Beware of different guanxi measurements when doing research in China

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Latham, Gwenda and Gordon, Raymond. 2009. "Beware of different guanxi measurements when doing research in China ." Beaumont, Nicholas (ed.) ANZAM 2009: Sustainable Management and Marketing. Melbourne, Australia 01 - 04 Dec 2009 Melbourne, Australia.

Paper/Presentation Title	Beware of different guanxi measurements when doing research in China
Presentation Type	Paper
Authors	Latham, Gwenda (Author) and Gordon, Raymond (Author)
Editors	Beaumont, Nicholas
Journal or Proceedings Title	Proceedings of the 23rd Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference (ANZAM 2009)
ERA Conference ID	76593
Number of Pages	16
Year	2009
Place of Publication	Melbourne, Australia
ISBN	1863081593
Web Address (URL) of Paper	http://www.anzam.org
Conference/Event	ANZAM 2009: Sustainable Management and Marketing
	Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference
Event Details	Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference ANZAM Rank C C
Event Details	ANZAM 2009: Sustainable Management and Marketing Event Date 01 to end of 04 Dec 2009 Event Location Melbourne, Australia
Abstract	Doing research in China requires the awareness of the Chinese indigenous construct of guanxi. In measuring guanxi, researchers can take different approaches. In order to highlight the significance of adopting either the particularistic ties approach of Farh et al (1998) or the differential behaviours approach of Wong et al (2003), we used both measures in a correlation analysis in a mainland Chinese setting. The study demonstrates that these different approaches to measuring guanxi produce very different research outcomes, and highlights the need for researchers to be aware of how they measure guanxi.
Keywords	international organisational behaviour; cross cultural management; emerging economies, international HRM
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020	470202. Asian cultural studies
	350706. International business
	441005. Social theory
Public Notes	Copyright 2009 The Authors. Full papers available on CD-ROM of same title as published volume. Published volume only lists abstracts of all papers presented at conference.
Byline Affiliations	University of Macau, China
	School of Management and Marketing

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