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

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  • Francis MUNIER

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    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.

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    Paper provided by Réseau de Recherche sur l’Innovation. / Research Network on Innovation in its series Working Papers with number 2.

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    Length: 12 pages
    Date of creation: 2008
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    Publication status: Published in Documents de travail du RRI, 2008
    Handle: RePEc:rii:rridoc:2

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    Keywords: Guanxi; corporate governance; communities; knowledge; network;

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