Erratum to “The changing Chinese culture and business behaviour: The perspective of intertwinement between guanxi and corruption” [Int. Bus. Rev. 17 (2008) 188–193]

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Erratum to ‘‘The changing Chinese culture and business behaviour: The perspective of intertwinement between guanxi and corruption’’ [Int. Bus. Rev. 17 (2008) 188–193] Yadong Luo  Department of Management, School of Business Administration, University of Miami, 417 Jenkins Building, Coral Gables, FL 33124-9145, USA

In the article ‘‘The changing Chinese culture and business behaviour: The perspective of intertwinement between guanxi and corruption’’ by Yadong Luo, 2008, in International Buisness Review, 17(2), 188–193, it is acknowledged that reference should have been made to ‘‘Guanxi’s consequences: Personal gains at social costs’’ by Ying Fan, 2002b, in Journal of Business Ethics, 38(4), 369–378. The author apologizes for this oversight. This reference should be cited on page 192, as indicated in the following text: Regardless of categories or cells, there are some general consequences of intertwineability. In a demoralized society, the above intertwinement will inevitably result in corrupted guanxi and guanxi-based corruption, the conjoined twins that cannot be separated (Fan, 2002b). In some extreme cases, there may be no business guanxi network that is not tinted by corruption and no corruption without using guanxi (Fan, 2002b). In the 1970s and 1980s, guanxi was largely meant to obtain scarce consumer goods or to find a better job for one’s children through the ‘back door’. Today, guanxi is implicated in all big corruption cases and organised crimes. One particular feature is that corruption has evolved from individual wrongdoings into institutional corruption that often involves a complicated guanxi network between high-ranking officials and private businessmen. Indeed, corruption exists in any country or society, but it is guanxi that provides a fertile soil in China for corruption to flourish when the country is largely demoralized (Fan, 2002b). Even worse is the fact that, in such a demoralized environment, some legitimate businesses may face pressures to engage in corruption or other illicit activities as well. Often, they may be forced to develop corrupted guanxi and conduct guanxi-based corruption to get the thing done. It is reported that guanix becomes a powerful tool wielded by corrupted officials to blackmail business for their personal gains (Fan, 2002b). In addition there should be a change to the text on line 13 of page 191. The text there should now read: On the other hand, guanxi and corruption are both provoked by the incompleteness of the formal system, as argued by others (Fan, 2002a; Guthrie, 1998; Lovett, Simmons, & Kali, 1999). The references related to the above text should be: Fan, Y. (2002a). Questioning guanxi: Definition, classification and implications. International Business Review, 11(5), 543–561. Fan, Y. (2002b). Guanxi’s consequences: Personal gains at social costs. Journal of Business Ethics, 38(4), 369–378. The publisher would also like to point out that the corresponding author’s address was given incorrectly in the original article and should be that given above.

DOI of original article: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2008.02.002

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