Guanxi and Wasta: A comparison

By Kate Hutchings, David Weir. 2006

279 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Accounting, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Perceived organizational barriers to women's career advancement in Lebanon (2010, background): “This type of social connection not only pervades the business activities of Middle Eastern countries (Hutchings and Weir, 2006) but also is infused throughout Asian countries, including China (Hutchings and Weir, 2006), Indonesia (Wright and Crockett-Tellei, 1994), and Malaysia (Mansor, 1994).”
• Emiratisation: determining the factors that influence the recruitment decisions of employers in the UAE (2012, background): “Consequently many employers do not look favourably on this as such interventions can and do interfere with both effective and equitable management of staff (Hutchings and Weir 2006; Jones 2008).”
• Regulation, Trust, and Cronyism in Middle Eastern Societies: The Simple Economics of 'Wasta' (2013, background): “Hutchings and Weir (2006), management professors, observe that similar practices in China are referred to as guanxi.”
• Networking responses to different levels of institutional void: a comparison of internationalizing SMEs in Egypt and the UK (2017, methodology): “This is consistent with the use of Wasta in terms of finding someone in a high position to get things done faster and even to obtain approvals (Hutchings & Weir, 2006).”
• The Impact of Environment Concern and Attitude on Green Purchasing Behavior: Gender as the Moderator (2015, background): “According to Hutchings and Weir (2006), the family context, culture and traditions of Arab society identifies the role of Arab women.”