Gratitude in business Guanxi in Taiwan
Gratitude research sees gratitude primarily as a positive emotion or a positive character. This direction ignores a more traditional focus on the role of affects in social experiences taken by this study. The social experience of interest was reciprocity. As reciprocation was suggested to be the sol...
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| author | Nguyen, Hanh Trinh Tan, Hongkun Toh, Basilia Liying Ang, Geraldine Shi Min |
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| description | Gratitude research sees gratitude primarily as a positive emotion or a positive character. This direction ignores a more traditional focus on the role of affects in social experiences taken by this study. The social experience of interest was reciprocity. As reciprocation was suggested to be the sole gratitude expression, I argued that gratitude expression is socio-culturally shaped. This led me to exploring what and how socio-cultural factors shape gratitude expression. The study was exploratory and the context of inquiry was Chinese. Reciprocity and gratitude were argued to be under business guanxi, a Chinese indigenous concept. A model of business guanxi was built. The results partially supported the model and strongly suggested that gratitude expression is socio-culturally shaped. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/354842019-12-10T13:26:47Z Gratitude in business Guanxi in Taiwan Nguyen, Hanh Trinh Tan, Hongkun Toh, Basilia Liying Ang, Geraldine Shi Min School of Humanities and Social Sciences Olwen Bedford DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Social psychology Gratitude research sees gratitude primarily as a positive emotion or a positive character. This direction ignores a more traditional focus on the role of affects in social experiences taken by this study. The social experience of interest was reciprocity. As reciprocation was suggested to be the sole gratitude expression, I argued that gratitude expression is socio-culturally shaped. This led me to exploring what and how socio-cultural factors shape gratitude expression. The study was exploratory and the context of inquiry was Chinese. Reciprocity and gratitude were argued to be under business guanxi, a Chinese indigenous concept. A model of business guanxi was built. The results partially supported the model and strongly suggested that gratitude expression is socio-culturally shaped. Bachelor of Arts 2010-04-19T07:13:20Z 2010-04-19T07:13:20Z 2010 2010 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/35484 en Nanyang Technological University 28 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Social psychology Nguyen, Hanh Trinh Tan, Hongkun Toh, Basilia Liying Ang, Geraldine Shi Min Gratitude in business Guanxi in Taiwan |
| title | Gratitude in business Guanxi in Taiwan |
| title_full | Gratitude in business Guanxi in Taiwan |
| title_fullStr | Gratitude in business Guanxi in Taiwan |
| title_full_unstemmed | Gratitude in business Guanxi in Taiwan |
| title_short | Gratitude in business Guanxi in Taiwan |
| title_sort | gratitude in business guanxi in taiwan |
| topic | DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Social psychology |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/35484 |
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