The Role of Social Capital/Guanxi in Students’ Decision-Making about Postgraduate Education in China: An Explorative Case Study

This paper explores how the concept of social capital developed by Bourdieu and Coleman as well as the Chinese concept of guanxi (关系) or relationships facilitates students’ access to postgraduate education in a case study of a university in southeast China. The study comprises an initial survey of 381 first-year postgraduate students and a series of interviews with 30 participants. Social capital and guanxi inform analysis of the data. The results reveal that students from different social backgrounds employ different forms of social capital and guanxi networks in their decision-making about postgraduate education. They contribute to conceptualizations of how social capital is generated through guanxi in the Chinese educational context.     

关系实践对员工绩效改进动机的影响研究

绩效考核的重要目的之一是促进员工能够对现有工作中存在的不足进行改进。本文基于中国“关系”文化的视角,分析了组织内部关系实践、考核标准可衡量性、绩效考核公平感和绩效改进动机之间的关系。基于511份问卷调查数据,结果表明,组织内员工感知到的关系实践越强,绩效改进动机越弱,绩效考核公平感在这两者之间起完全中介作用;考核标准可衡量性越强,则员工绩效改进动机越强,绩效考核公平感在这两者之间起部分中介作用;同时,关系实践和考核标准可衡量性之间存在交互作用,组织内部关系实践会削弱考核标准可衡量性对绩效改进动机的正向作用;较高的考核标准可衡量性也可以抑制关系实践对绩效改进动机的不良影响。     

关系营销导向对营销渠道中企业间关系质量的影响:跨组织人际关系的中介作用

基于关系营销理论及渠道行为理论,以制造商与其经销商之间的关系为研究平台,检验了制造商的关系营销导向以及跨组织人际关系对与其经销商之间的企业间关系质量以及经销商投机行为的影响.研究结果表明:第一,制造商的关系营销导向对企业间关系质量有直接的显著正向影响,并且还可通过跨组织人际关系对企业间关系质量产生间接的正向影响;第二,企业间关系质量对经销商的投机行为有显著的抑制作用.     

外部关系能否帮助企业从突破式创新中获利?

突破式创新具有高风险和高价值的特点,然而并非所有的突破式创新都能为企业带来收益。研究在我国转型经济环境下,企业与外部组织的关系能否以及如何影响企业突破式创新与绩效之间的关系。通过对中国279家制造企业的研究发现,政府关系和同行关系会对突破式创新与绩效之间的关系有积极的调节作用,而供应商关系则会带来消极的调节作用,同时没有发现顾客关系存在着显著的调节作用。     

Motivating information security policy compliance: The critical role of supervisor-subordinate guanxi and organizational commitment

Employees’ non-compliance with organizational information security policy (ISP) when using informational resources has become the main reason for continuous security incidents. Drawing upon technology threat avoidance theory (TTAT) and social exchange theory (SET), our study investigates the influence of supervisor-subordinate guanxi (SSG) and organizational commitment in the information security management. Our hypotheses were tested using survey data from 235 Chinese government employees. Results not only confirm the direct effect of SSG on government employees’ ISP compliance but also suggest that SSG indirectly influences compliance behavior via the mediation of organizational commitment. Organizational commitment weakens the negative influence of perceived costs on compliance behavior and also weakens the positive effect of self-efficacy on employees’ ISP compliance. For low-commitment employees, the negative influence of perceived costs on compliance behavior is more significant than that of those with strong organizational commitment, and self-efficacy exerts a stronger effect on ISP compliance for low-commitment employees than it does for high-commitment employees. This study contributes to current literature on information systems (IS) by confirming the critical roles of SSG and organizational commitment in motivating employees’ compliance behavior.     

关系专用性投资、关系质量与合作绩效

本文通过搜集江苏等地148家企业的数据,利用结构方程模型对我国合作企业间关系专用性投资、关系质量与合作绩效之间的关系进行实证研究.结果表明,普通关系专用性投资和人情关系投资之间存在相互促进的关系;普通关系专用性投资可以显著提高关系持久性和关系公平性,人情关系投资则对关系强度的提升具有正面影响;关系持久性和关系公平性对合作绩效的提升也表现出明显的正向作用.     

中国企业R&D人员工作价值观结构实证研究

 工作价值观是个体衡量工作行为与结果优劣及其重要性的内心尺度,是个体对待工作的信念,反映了个体的内在需求及偏好,引导着个体对待工作的态度倾向、行为准则和目标追求。本研究通过编制《中国企业R&D人员工作价值观问卷》(R&D-WVQ),对冶金、汽车、化工、装备制造和电子信息等五个行业的企业R&D人员进行了调查。对冶金、化工和装备制造三个行业1231份有效问卷数据进行探索性因素分析;对汽车行业389份有效问卷数据、电子信息行业450份有效问卷数据进行验证性因素分析,结果表明,中国企业R&D人员工作价值观包含生存、关系、发展和组织支持四个因素,R&D-WVQ问卷具有良好的信效度,可以作为相关研究的工具。     

威权领导与下属建言的关系:一个跨层分析

以65个团队中的65位管理者以及264位下属为研究对象,运用跨层次分析方法,探讨了团队的威权领导对下属建言上司和建言同事行为的影响,以及领导-成员交换、团队-成员交换的中介效应和关系流行度的调节效应。结果发现:威权领导对下属建言上司和建言同事均有消极影响;领导-成员交换在威权领导与下属建言上司关系中起中介作用,团队-成员交换在威权领导与下属建言同事关系中起中介作用;关系流行度正向调节了领导-成员交换与建言上司之间的关系,对团队-成员交换与建言同事之间的关系调节作用不显著。     

‘Talent circulators’ in Shanghai: return migrants and their strategies for success

This paper argues for a flexible identity and citizenship framework to explore how return migrants, haigui, have readapted and re-established themselves back into Shanghai society, and how they have used their talents, knowledge and guanxi networks to optimise their chances of success. It argues that these return migrants, as talent circulators in their circulatory migration process, have adopted a flexible identity and citizenship, to confront their conflicting emotions and negotiated sacrifices for the well-being of their individual self and family as they expand their socio-economic and territorial space.     

关系对企业国际化进入模式战略选择的影响

主要探讨关系对企业国际化进入模式的影响.环顾企业国际化进入模式的理论与研究,以关系为视角的探讨甚少.以中国企业为研究对象,在经营环境因素与内部资源特性因素之外加上关系因素为观点,提出一个较为契合中国企业情境的国际化进入模式理论模型.通过对110个企业决策者的问卷调查,实证分析结果发现:企业决策者的个人关系会影响企业的国际化进入模式.具体而言,企业决策者的个人关系会使企业以风险更高的模式进入国际市场,而企业关系则不会影响其国际化进入模式.