Questioning the Appropriateness of Examining Guanxi in a Wasta Environment: Why Context Should Be Front and Center in Informal Network Research – A Commentary on ‘De-Linking From Western Epistemologies: Using Guanxi-Type Relationships to Attract and Retain Hotel Guests in the Middle East’

IF 2.6 4区 管理学 Q3 MANAGEMENT
Sven Horak, Ibrahim Abosag, Kate Hutchings, Fadi Alsarhan, Sa'ad Ali, Arwa Al-Twal, David Weir, Fawaz Baddar ALHussan, Faten Baddar AL-Husan
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In this commentary we reflect on Shaalan, Eid, and Tourky's (2022) article in which they investigated the Chinese concept and practice of guanxi in the Middle East, 1 a region in which wasta represents the common way of informal networking. 2 While we encourage and welcome research into informal networks, we have serious concerns about the conceptual and methodological approaches taken by Shaalan et al. (2022) in investigating informal networks in the Middle East and explain herein why we do not believe guanxi should have been used in place of wasta .
质疑在非正式网络研究中考察关系的适当性:为什么语境应该是前沿和中心——评《从西方认识论中分离:利用关系型关系吸引和留住中东酒店客人》
在这篇评论中,我们回顾了Shaalan、Eid和Tourky(2022)的文章,他们在文章中调查了中国在中东的关系概念和实践,在中东地区,wasta代表了非正式网络的常见方式。2虽然我们鼓励并欢迎对非正式网络的研究,但我们对Shaalan等人(2022)在调查中东非正式网络时所采用的概念和方法方法表示严重关切,并在此解释了为什么我们不认为应该用关系来代替wasta。
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