<i>Guanxi</i>, political connections and resource acquisition in Chinese publicly listed private sector firms

Yu, Han; Nahm, Abraham Y.; Song, Zengji

doi:10.1080/13602381.2016.1161889

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“…It is necessary for all parties involved in innovation to work together and solve problems. The common values, vision, and goals of the participants in the innovation processes can promote the emergence of collective actions, formation of consensus, reducing disputes, and improving coordination [30,52,74,75]. Therefore, managers should encourage and motivate employees to form common norms, vision, and consensus on their innovative tasks, and pursue the collective goals and mission in the entire innovation process [68].…”

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“…Chinese organizations established strong ties with the government are more likely to have access to sustainable resources, protection, and support in business and policy areas [30,74]. It is helpful to break through the shortcomings or bottlenecks of innovation, reduce the uncertainty and risk of innovation, and ultimately shorten the time of innovation [52,75]. As mentioned before, organizations should actively set up and take advantage of guanxi connections with governments.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Firms with strong government ties are able to improve the quantity and quality of the resources required for sustainable innovation, thus relieving the resource pressure of sustainable innovation, avoiding the delay or shelving caused by resource shortages, and thereby providing better innovative products or services to consumers more quickly [30]. Firms can also obtain sustainable protection and support from government agencies [74], which may reduce the uncertainty and risk of innovation and ensure the completion of tasks in each stage of innovation on schedule, thus shortening the innovation cycle [52,75]. We therefore hypothesize: Hypothesis 8 (H8).…”

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Does Social Capital Increase Innovation Speed? Empirical Evidence from China

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Past studies have suggested that social capital is a sustainable competitive advantage that leads to sustainable organizational growth and performance. However, few studies have explored how innovation speed moderates the relationship between social capital and sustainable organizational performance in China where the government plays key roles in promoting sustainable development goals. This paper develops a “social capital-innovation speed-performance” framework to investigate the mechanism of social capital influencing innovation speed, which in turn affects sustainable organizational growth and performance. Based on data collected from 125 Chinese firms, hierarchical moderated regression analyses indicate that structural social capital positively affects sustainable organizational performance but has no significant impact on sustainable innovation speed; relational social capital has no significant impact on sustainable organizational performance and is negatively correlated with innovation speed; cognitive social capital positively correlates with sustainable organizational performance and affects innovation speed, and government ties affect sustainable organizational performance and positively impact innovation speed. The study findings suggest that in China, increasing government ties is the most important social capital in creating sustainable organizational growth and performance. Both cognitive social capital and government ties are conducive to accelerating innovation speed, which gives firms a sustainable competitive advantage to achieve sustainable organizational performance.

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Does Social Capital Increase Innovation Speed? Empirical Evidence from China

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Song

2019

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“…Studies on guanxi have suggested that it may have both positive and negative outcomes. Some researchers have focused on its benefits such as promoting long‐term relationships (Wang, Shi and Barnes ) and providing access to scarce resources (Yu, Nahm and Song ) and human capital (Peng, Sun and Markóczy ), while others have suggested that guanxi may lead to corruption and cause ethical dilemmas (Luo ; Snell, Tjosvold and Wu ). It seems clear from prior research that Chinese guanxi may act as a double‐edged sword: it can lead to positive outcomes, but it may also lead to negative outcomes, especially in business relationships (Fan ; Warren, Dunfee and Li ).…”

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How ethical leadership cultivates healthy guanxi to enhance OCB in China

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Ethical leadership has been documented as a critical factor influencing employee behavior. This study aims to expand on previous research by investigating how ethical leadership cultivates healthy Chinese guanxi between employees and their supervisors and influences employee organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). We propose that two types of Chinese guanxi, favor‐seeking guanxi and rent‐seeking guanxi, may play a mediating role in the relationship between ethical leadership and OCB. Using survey data collected from Chinese employees (N = 502), regression and bootstrap analyses are used to test the proposed research model. The results suggest that ethical leadership not only directly promotes employee OCB performance, but also does so indirectly by facilitating favor‐seeking guanxi orientation and suppressing rent‐seeking guanxi orientation. The results provide a theoretical contribution to the study of ethical leadership and Chinese guanxi, and also extend our practical understanding of the role of ethical leadership in enhancing OCB effectively in the China context.

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“…Entrepreneurial resources, as a sum of all kinds of resources possessed by companies in the entrepreneurial process, are pivotal to corporate entrepreneurship and growth. Political connections as an important network capability greatly impact the entrepreneurial resource acquisition of companies [83]. Based on the study of the existing relevant literature, we can find that political connections can bring companies the following economic values.…”

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Study of the Relationship between Political Connections and Corporate Re-Entrepreneurial Performance

Zhao

Liu

2019

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Based on both resource-based theory and institution-based theory, this study places political connections, acquisition of entrepreneurial resources, institutional environment, and corporate re-entrepreneurial performance into the same research framework. Using data from 223 real estate companies in China as a sample and with the help of the statistical tools SPSS 22.0 and Mplus 7.0, the study examines the internal influence mechanism of political connections on corporate re-entrepreneurial performance as well as the mediating effect of acquisition of entrepreneurial resources and the moderating effect of institutional environment. The empirical results show that both explicit political connections and implicit ones have positive impacts on corporate re-entrepreneurial performance through the mediating effect of acquisition of entrepreneurial knowledge resources and entrepreneurial asset resources. Meanwhile, institutional environment positively regulates the relationship between political connections and corporate re-entrepreneurial performance. The results of the study suggest that political connections have positive impacts on corporate re-entrepreneurial performance under the circumstances of China’s transitional economy, but the impacts are restricted by institutional environment to a large extent.

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Guanxi, political connections and resource acquisition in Chinese publicly listed private sector firms

Cited by 26 publications

References 62 publications

Does Social Capital Increase Innovation Speed? Empirical Evidence from China

Does Social Capital Increase Innovation Speed? Empirical Evidence from China

How ethical leadership cultivates healthy guanxi to enhance OCB in China

Study of the Relationship between Political Connections and Corporate Re-Entrepreneurial Performance

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