Guanxi and conflict management for effective partnering with competitors in China
Document Type
Journal article
Source Publication
British Journal of Management
Publication Date
9-1-2010
Volume
21
Issue
3
First Page
772
Last Page
788
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Abstract
Competitors are increasingly forming partnerships to improve their capabilities to respond to customers and solve problems. This study uses research on guanxi and conflict management to identify critical conditions that facilitate effective collaboration between competitors. It theorizes that a high level of guanxi promotes cooperative and reduces competitive approaches to conflict that in turn facilitate partnership effectiveness. Data were collected from 100 paired competitors, operating in many industries in Shanghai, China. Results from the structural equation analysis indicated that a high level of guanxi reduces a competitive approach to conflict that in turn results in partnership effectiveness. These findings were interpreted as providing support that a high level of guanxi and a reduced level of the competitive approach to conflict are foundations for effective collaboration between competitors in China and perhaps in other countries as well.
DOI
10.1111/j.1467-8551.2010.00690.x
Print ISSN
10453172
E-ISSN
14678551
Publisher Statement
Copyright © 2010 British Academy of Management
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Language
English
Recommended Citation
Wong, A., & Tjosvold, D. (2010). Guanxi and conflict management for effective partnering with competitors in China. British Journal of Management, 21(3), 772-788. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8551.2010.00690.x