Guanxi describes culturally embedded personal ties carrying access, trust, information, and reciprocal obligation. Organizational analysis examines how these relationships support coordination, where they concentrate dependency, and when personal access threatens procedural fairness or excludes people outside the tie.
- FamilyModel
- CategoryConcepts & Constructs
- DomainAcross Cultures
What these mean
Editorial orientation · Family
Model
In this series, Model names the editorial family primarily used to understand and explain communication: theories, frameworks, effects, traditions, principles and other conceptual resources. It is an umbrella for a route into the field, not a claim that every included object is a predictive model.
Editorial orientation · Category
Concepts & Constructs
Delimits an entity, property, relation or condition relevant to understanding communication. Its principal contribution is to clarify what something means, which features constitute it, and how to recognize or distinguish it.