Guanxi in an age of digitalization: toward assortation and value homophily in new tie-formation

Au, Anson

doi:10.1186/s40711-022-00165-2

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“…In the wake of empirical evidence showing that digital platforms shape the content of their interactions (Au, 2022b;Tian, 2021), the subject of the present article gains salience with the understanding that so too do institutional conditions hold powerful influence over the social (capital) exchanges within their boundaries-particularly as a range of institutions, from governments to private companies, exhibit structural transformations and create new social spaces for work and interaamid the rapidly advancing tide of digitalization.…”

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Social capital exchanges in voluntary associations and work organizations: A network perspective

2022

Sociology Compass

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Organizations have been an important setting in which social capital exchanges (SCEs) occur, but little work has been done to distinguish two predominant species of organizations in the social network literature: voluntary associations and formal work organizations. Addressing this lacuna, this article comparatively examines how the two organizational species differ in (1) how two prominent types of SCEs operate (restricted and generalized exchange), as well as (2) the analytical approaches and methodological tools for studying SCEs (boundary-specification, sampling, network designs, tie-recording methods) and their adherent implications for network structure (networking conditions and homophily). This article concludes by identifying methodological and theoretical challenges for studying SCEs in organizations (conceptualizing organizations as units, underappreciating meaning-making and methodological triangulation, and examining contagion in organizational networks in an age of digitalization) and developing recommendations for overcoming them.

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Social capital exchanges in voluntary associations and work organizations: A network perspective

2022

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“…Some studies consider whether social media can build and maintain guanxi. Social media and guanxi culture come together to erode status boundaries that exist during impersonal interactions, create access to larger networks, and strengthen ties (Au, 2022). For example, social media could initiate swift guanxi and enhance trust between customers and companies, which could encourage repurchase intentions (Chong et al, 2018).…”

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Accountability mobilization, guanxi and social media‐induced polarization: Understanding the bystander's prosocial punishment to misinformation spreader

Zhu,

Zhang,

Ding

et al. 2023

Information Systems Journal

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Prosocial punishments by social media bystanders could block the path from misinformation spread to social media‐induced polarization (SMIP). However, prosocial punishments are inadequate for SMIP management because of the personal costs, and few studies propose effective ways to mobilize bystanders. The Chinese government implemented a regulation in 2017 to mobilize bystanders on social media through allocating accountability to act as misinformation supervisors. In China's guanxi culture, prosocial punishments are less observed considering the additional personal costs caused by breaking guanxi. Therefore, assessing the effectiveness of China's cyberspace accountability mobilization can help identify an effective tool for other governments to mitigate SMIP. We used a vignette survey experiment to collect data from WeChat users and applied a random regression model to analyse the data. Accountability mobilization significantly promotes bystanders' prosocial punishment to block the misinformation‐spread‐to‐SMIP path. Guanxi negatively moderates the relationship between accountability mobilization and prosocial punishment to the above path. The government could encourage the public to actively take prosocial punishments by using the new tool of accountability mobilization. Guanxi culture reduces the effectiveness of the tool.

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“…The research of social communication has drawn a lot of attention from academics in the field of network science. They primarily concentrate on behavior communication [1], information communication [2] and emotional communication [3]. Their exploration into the nature of social communication is supported by both theoretical analysis and experimental validation.…”

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Novel propagation phenomena: behaviors of local trend imitation on multiple limited contact networks

2023

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The local trend imitation(LTI) feature behavior has been deeply studied on speciﬁc complex networks, but still needs to be explored in more scenarios. In fact, the multiple networks with individual limited contact feature is more in line with the real scenario On the multiple limited networks,a novel model is proposed to investigate the eﬀects of individual contact capacity heterogeneity. Then,information propagation mechanism is then measured and examined using a developed partition theory. The experimental results show crossover occurrences of phase transition. In the new network model, the ﬁnal spreading scope exhibits a second-order continuous growth when individuals display a positive LTI behavior. Individuals have a passive LTI behavior, however, the ﬁnal spreading scope exhibits a ﬁrst-order discontinuous growth. Besides, a greatest ultimate spreading size appears at an ideal LTI parameter with the unit spreading probability changing. Additionally, individual contact capacity heterogeneity changes the rate of information spreading and the global adoption pattern. Eventually the outcomes of the theoretic analysis match those of the simulations.

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Guanxi in an age of digitalization: toward assortation and value homophily in new tie-formation

Cited by 11 publications

References 94 publications

Social capital exchanges in voluntary associations and work organizations: A network perspective

Social capital exchanges in voluntary associations and work organizations: A network perspective

Accountability mobilization, guanxi and social media‐induced polarization: Understanding the bystander's prosocial punishment to misinformation spreader

Novel propagation phenomena: behaviors of local trend imitation on multiple limited contact networks

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