East Meets West: Tacit Messages about Business Ethics in Stories Told by Chinese Managers

This article examines how culture influences Chinese managers’ perception of some western management instruments, such as codes of ethics and performance evaluation systems. The research is based on analyzing the tacit messages in “stories told” by managers and reviewing some of the barriers that ma...

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Main Author: von Weltzien Hoivik, Heidi (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer 2007
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2007, Volume: 74, Issue: 4, Pages: 457-469
Further subjects:B ‘Guanxi’
B codes of ethics
B Chinese culture
B ‘face’
B ‘Renqing’
B Chinese managers
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