How Does Chinese Culture Affect Chinese Management?

A Culturalists' perspective on Chinese management maintains "the influence of Chinese cultural values on management practises is so significant that it has created the distinguishing characteristics of the Chinese managerial system" . It is said that the prevailing Chinese culture has strongly influenced management in terms of centralized authority, hierarchical structures as well as informal co-ordination and control mechanisms . However, in studying Chinese management thought, although one can readily trace its development from the past to …

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