Debate on Informal Interpersonal Networks: Guanxi vs. Wasta

IF 2.6 4区 管理学 Q3 MANAGEMENT
Johann Peter Murmann
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MOR's D3 section seeks to stimulate dialogue, debate, and discussion among scholars. When I took over as editor of D3, MOR's editorial team brainstormed how to further develop the D3 feature. We agreed that in addition to seeking original articles, we also wanted to encourage debate on articles that have already appeared in MOR. In this issue, we publish a commentary on Shaalan, Eid, and Tourky's (2022) article ‘De-Linking from Western Epistemologies: Using Guanxi-Type Relationships to Attract and Retain Hotel Guests in the Middle East’. The commentary, entitled ‘Questioning the Appropriateness of Examining Guanxi in a Wasta Environment: Why Context Should Be Front and Center in Informal Network Research’, has been written by Horak, Abosag, Hutchings, Alsarhan, Ali, Al-Twal, Weir, ALHussan, and AL-Husan (2023). As their title suggests, the commentators take issue with transferring the concept of guanxi into an environment in which another idea about informal interpersonal networks, wasta, already exists. I sense that the desire to write a critical comment was fueled by the fact that Shaalan et al. (2022) never referred to the concept of ‘wasta’ in their original article. We invited the authors of the original article to write a rejoinder (Shaalan, Eid, & Tourky, 2023) in which they emphasize even further that they only argue that guanxi-type relationships exist in the Middle East and not that guanxi itself exists.
非正式人际网络之争:关系vs.关系
教育部D3部分旨在激发学者之间的对话、辩论和讨论。当我成为《D3》的编辑时,MOR的编辑团队就如何进一步开发《D3》功能进行了头脑风暴。我们同意,除了寻求原创文章外,我们还希望鼓励对已经出现在《教育部》上的文章进行辩论。在本期中,我们发表了对Shaalan、Eid和Tourky(2022)的文章《与西方认识论脱钩:利用关系型关系在中东吸引和留住酒店客人》的评论。这篇题为《质疑在非正式环境中考察关系的适当性:为什么语境应该是非正式网络研究的前沿和中心》的评论由Horak、Abosag、Hutchings、Alsarhan、Ali、Al-Twal、Weir、ALHussan和AL-Husan(2023)撰写。正如他们的标题所示,评论者对将关系的概念转移到一个已经存在另一种关于非正式人际网络的概念——wasta的环境中提出了异议。我觉得Shaalan et al.(2022)在他们的原创文章中从未提及“wasta”的概念,这一事实助长了他们撰写批判性评论的愿望。我们邀请了原文的作者写一篇反驳文章(Shaalan, Eid, &Tourky, 2023),他们进一步强调,他们只认为关系类型的关系存在于中东,而不是关系本身的存在。
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