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Klappentext This volume assesses the evolving role of guanxi (social networks) in China's transforming society. Zusammenfassung Guanxi (social networks) is among the most important and studied phenomena in China. In this volume! the editors bring together many of the top scholars of guanxi to present a dynamic view of the role of social networks in Chinese society. Inhaltsverzeichnis An introduction to the study of guanxi Thomas Gold, Doug Guthrie and David Wank; 1. Practices of guanxi production and practices of ganqing suppression Andrew Kipnis; 2. Information asymmetries and the problems of perception: the significance of structural position in assessing the importance of guanxi Doug Guthrie; 3. Beyond dyad social exchange: guanxi and third party effects Lin Yimin; 4. Guanxi in business groups: social ties and the formation of economic relations Lisa Keister; 5. The significance of the declining significance of guanxi: how networks change in China's market economy David Wank; 6. Institutional holes and job mobility processes: guanxi mechanisms in China's emergent labor markets Yanjie Bian; 7. Youth job searches in urban China: the use of social connections in a changing labor market Amy Hanser; 8. Face, norms, and instrumentality Scott Wilson; 9. Guanxi and the PRC legal system: from contradiction to complementarity Pitman Potter; 10. 'Idle talk': neighborhood gossip as a medium of social communication in reform era Shanghai James Farrer; Final insights: network analysis and the study of guanxi Barry Wellman, Wenhong Chen and Weizhen Dong.
