Journal article
A Relational View of Organizational Restructuring: The Case of Transitional China
Management and organization review, v 8(1), pp 51-75
Mar 2012
Abstract
This article addresses three questions concerning authority relations (personal relations with superiors) in transitional China. First, can superiors retain an organizational unit in order to save a protege's job? Second, has instrumental usage of particularistic relations, or guanxi, lost its importance? Third, has ‘principled particularism’, an integration of political loyalty and authority relations, continued to impact careers? Based on first-hand survey data, I find that state-owned enterprises in which managers had closer authority relations were less likely to be sold or discontinued, and close authority relations also reduced the likelihood of career blockage (demotion/lay off). The significant interactive effect of party membership and authority relations revealed the continuation of ‘principled particularism’. The study underlines institutional continuity during rapid social change, renders insights into the processes of organizational restructuring, and depicts the relational base of formal organizations.
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- Title
- A Relational View of Organizational Restructuring: The Case of Transitional China
- Creators
- Dali Ma - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Management and organization review, v 8(1), pp 51-75
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Number of pages
- 26
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Management
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000302014100004
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84858825895
- Other Identifier
- 991019168836004721
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