Guanxi and business environment in china: an innovative network as a process of knowledge-based economy

Francis Munier (rri@univ-littoral.fr)
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No 2, Working Papers from Réseau de Recherche sur l’Innovation. / Research Network on Innovation

Abstract: Guanxi is a specific part of Chinese business environment. Since the openness of China, it seems that a contradiction appears between the constraints of corporate governance and the cultural and traditional behaviour in business. Most of west analyses consider that Guanxi is only a form of corruption and therefore it should be fight it out. The originality of our work is to frame these questions in the context of recent concepts such as communities of practice and epistemic communities. Based on these concepts, we consider that the firm can be analysed from a dual perspective: cognitive and organisational. The first one belongs to the guanxi logic and the second one to the corporate governance. According to these framework, we point out the fact that guanxi provides an innovative network in order to diffuse and enhance knowledge.

Keywords: Guanxi; corporate governance; communities; knowledge; network (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q50 R51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 12 pages
Date: 2008
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