Zhang, Chenjian Wang, Tao Ahlstrom, David
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Entrepreneurship Research Journal
Existing network research has mainly adopted functional and/or structural approaches to study the instrumental goals behind entrepreneurs’ networking as well as the influence of personal position on access to resources and eventual performance. The variety of entrepreneurs’ networking styles and their normative underpinnings have not been adequatel...
liu, haoxin wang, tulips yiwen i. bernardo, allan b. shen, heyong
This study explored people’s estimation of cooperative intention when paired with people with different types of relationships, and the mediating roles of trust and responsibility between guanxi perception and the estimation of cooperative intention. We recruited 398 university students from the Greater Bay Area of China to complete two public good...
Wang, Jue Wen, Shaoting Xue, Jiaolong
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Psychology research and behavior management
Although user engagement has been paid increasing attention, the work on user disengagement is scarce, and little is understood about how overloads elicited by excessive social commerce activities affect user disengagement. Based on the stimulus-organism-response (SOR) framework and psychological reactance theory (PRT), the authors aimed to investi...
Yang, Chunjiang Chen, Yashuo Chen, Aobo Ahmed, Syed Jameel
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Frontiers in Psychology
Although it has been long recognized that leader–member exchange social comparison (LMXSC) has critical implications for employee productivity, little attention has been given to systematically exploring the effects of LMXSC on employee performance in a specific cultural context. Integrating social exchange theory with social comparison theory, we ...
Li, Yan Devlieghere, Jochen Li, Jiacheng Vandenbroeck, Michel
Over the past few decades, scholars have paid attention to how PI (parental involvement) impacts children's performance at school. Hence, PI is often reduced to school-centric involvement. Moreover, several studies have shown social class differences in PI, but relatively little attention has been paid to social class differences in culturally dive...
Wang, Carrie
In this dissertation, I investigated the importance of institutional relational work, especially in terms of interpersonal relationship building and interactions at the individual level, in driving institutional change. Situated within the scope of policy making and policy change, my studies examined how the relationships between the business actor...
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As social innovations that help to transition towards a more sustainable food system, alternative food networks (AFNs) in China have attracted much scholarly attention in recent years. However, studies of the community building behavior of AFNs at the micro-level in the Chinese social context are scant. Through in-depth case studies conducted betwe...
Wang, Pengfei Liang, Liuke Pan, Yu Wang, Yu Li, Linna Chen, Yanyan Tian, Yihan
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Frontiers in Psychology
Exhibition is a new economic business form in China. From a stakeholder perspective, all important roles in the context of hospitality and tourism are talents. From a socio-cultural perspective, interpersonal relationship quality plays a vital role in business and industrial operations. This constructs a causal model of relationship quality between...
Liu, Jiayuan Zhu, Yilin Yan, Jianzhou
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Psychology Research and Behavior Management
Background CSR performance is significantly affected by the degree of knowledge exchange. As Chinese firms have increasingly engaged in CSR activities, significant attention has been paid to how groups of stakeholders share and exchange knowledge resources strategically to increase their CSR performance. A guanxi network is an important facilitator...
Jiang, Wen
IT outsourcing becomes popular and grows fast in Chinese enterprises (i.e. Chinese state-owned enterprises and Chinese private enterprises) since it has been considered an important tool for enabling organizations to reduce the IT cost, improve the service quality and access scarce resources. Control plays an important role in IT outsourcing by int...