Guanxi and Business (Asia-Pacific Business): 1

“It is a timely book in its attempt to provide clarity to the concept, offer a conceptual analysis of the phenomenon, and provide practical ideas to managers … I consider the book to be an excellent primer for managers, especially Westerners, who wish to have a basic lesson on the concept of guanxi and related phenomena.”– Asia Pacific Journal of Management

“As a guide to current practice, this book is good value. It contains a wealth of illustrative stories and has useful summary diagrams of the main ideas. It will be of much use to practitioners.”– The China Journal

“This book is a timely contribution to this important subject … It has advanced our intellectual understanding of guanxi by linking it with a number of theoretical bases such as transaction cost theory, organizational networks theory, and resource-based strategy theory… Guanxi and Business is so far the most thorough penetration into the relevance of guanxi for business I have seen written… I highly recommend this book to all who seek to understand business relationships in general and mechanisms in doing business with Chinese societies in particular.” —Journal of Asian Business