The Intellectual Structure of Guanxi: An Author Co-citation Analysis

• Main Authors: Lin, Yu-Chuan, 林佑權
• Other Authors: Yang, Chyan
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/9jacn4

碩士 === 國立交通大學 === 資訊管理研究所 === 103 === Guanxi(關係) is one of the core cultures in the Chinese context. With the growing globalization, it has become more and more important for any business entering China. The objective of this paper is to delineate the intellectual structure of guanxi during the period 1989-2014. By applying a bibliometric technique called author co-citation analysis (ACA) on the citation information retrieved from the Science Citation Index (SCI) and the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) database, co-citation frequencies between every two different authors will form the ACA output matrix. Furthermore, this matrix would be used as the input of several further data analytic techniques such as factor analysis, multidimensional scaling, hierarchical cluster analysis and pathfinder network scaling. The results identifies three main trends in guanxi studies: (1) Guanxi in China Studies (2) Guanxi in Business and Management (3) Guanxi in Management and Demography Studies, and even several branches of them. This research provides an overview and discloses the hidden trends of guanxi studies in academia.