Guanxi and Business Strategy Theory and Implications for Multination

"Guanxi and Business Strategy" elaborates upon a topic of paramount importance to both academic scholars and managers doing business with China: the impact of personal relationships (guanxi) on business affairs. In the Chinese cultural and socio-economic

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Eike A. Langenberg

Guanxi and Business Strategy Theory and Implications for Multinational Companies in China

With 24 Figures and 4 Tables

Physica-Verlag A Springer Company

Series Editors Werner A. Müller Martina Bihn

Author Eike A. Langenberg holds a Ph.D. in Chinese Studies and an MBA from the University of Hamburg, Germany. Having spent more than five years in China, he currently works as a General Manager at Siemens Ltd., China. You may contact the author at [email protected].

Library of Congress Control Number: 2007924712

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