Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore suzhi requirements and expectations to
double-shouldered academics as middle-level cadres (双肩挑处级干部) in a Chinese higher …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to conceptualize the indigenous concept of suzhi at
individual and organizational levels, and identify its dimensions for human resource …

Supervisor-subordinate guanxi is an informal leader-member relationship that is of utmost
importance in Chinese organizations. This paper explores Chinese employees' motives for …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to examine the indigenous Chinese concept of suzhi
(素质) with the aim of furthering the development of Chinese human resource management …

Supervisor–subordinate guanxi is an emerging research area in assessing the link between
superior and subordinate inside an organization, and due to its significance in the Chinese …

Despite the growing number of studies on the topic of guanxi in a work context, there is a
paucity of research on supervisor–subordinate guanxi in the field of organisation and …

Despite the growing number of studies on supervisor–subordinate guanxi in Chinese
society, there is a paucity of research on its antecedents. The purpose of this study was to …

As China is becoming an important market and there are a lot of foreign ventures operating
there, different lines of research have been providing useful information for foreign ventures …

Previous studies showed that guanxi is important for research in Chinese management and
business activity. However, the concepts and nature of this practice in the context of China …

Abstract Supervisor-Subordinate GuanXi (SSG) is a new research direction in the study of
the relationship between superior and subordinate within the organization, and because of …