In this research, we compared and contrasted the effects of managers’ interpersonal level guanxi practice and group level guanxi practice on employees’ procedural justice perceptions. Results indicated that interpersonal guanxi practice was associated with increased employee fairness...

We develop a three-dimensional concept of supervisor-subordinate guanxi. This concept includes affective attachment, personal-life inclusion, and deference to supervisor. Based on this concept, we conducted three studies to develop and validate a three-dimensional supervisor-subordinate guanxi...

This study investigated the link between private entrepreneurs’ political networking and organizational strategies for conflict management in China. We predicted, and found, that those with political influence were more likely to use a “rights” approach to resolve inter-organizational...

In recent years, negotiation scholars have studied the effects of culture on negotiation as well as the effects of personality. This paper combines these two streams of research, and asks the question: Are the effects of personality on negotiation the same in a high-context, collectivist as they...

This paper develops five alternative models for Chinese-American differences in conflict avoiding tendencies, and test them using a scenario study with respondents from Taiwan and the U.S. Our results show that, contrary to expectations, differences in the expected career costs/benefits of...

Most arbitration research has been conducted in United States, despite the growth of arbitration internationally. In this study, we plan to examine one area where cross-cultural differences between Chinese and Americans have been found - attribution - and explore what effects this might have on...