In this article we review research on Chinese guanxi andsocial networking in the past twenty
years and identify the majorperspectives, theories, and methodologies used in …

Almost 30 years after Anderson and Gatignon systematically conceptualized various entry
modes, the scholarly research on their performance effects has accumulated a large amount …

Guanxi, a social network tie drawing on connections in business relations, has been
identified as a powerful strategic tool hel** organizations maintain competitive …

This paper offers a social network explanation for the purported relationship between
internationalization and firm performance in the context of born-global small and medium …

Guanxi refers to the durable social connections and networks a firm uses to exchange favors
for organizational purposes. This study examines how and when guanxi operates as a …

Guanxi refers to a Chinese system of doing business on the basis of personal relationships,
and it is representative of the way that business is done throughout much of the non-western …

Despite the growing interests among both academics and practitioners in the west, the
concept of guanxi is not much questioned and there is considerable confusion about its …

This paper proposes and tests a model of how firms acquire knowledge from their
international joint venturing experience. Based on survey responses from 73 Singapore and …

abstract This study investigates the mediating role of information sharing in the relationships
between dimensions of social capital and firm competitiveness, thereby positing a possible …

Purpose Building on the Chinese guanxi perspective, the purpose of this paper is to develop
a theoretical model that explains the indirect effects of social support from friends on social …