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Christian Witness in the Marketplace in Hong Kong
Li, Jinhan Ching, Mary Ann McCann, Dennis
Li, Jinhan
Ching, Mary Ann
McCann, Dennis
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In the marketplace, Christians are bound to encounter problems that challenge their faith. Can the Christian faith overcome various challenges, bringing forth the primacy of God before man? The authors interviewed 119 seasoned Christian executives in Hong Kong and recorded 539 stories. An integrative framework is developed basing on the typologies of H. Richard Niebuhr’s Christ and Culture and Lewicki and others’ negotiation styles. It becomes a five-mode typology that is used to classify different ways Christian executives actually responded to ethical issues. How a hostile culture (China business) and a supportive culture (Christian corporate culture) affected the way these executives chose to respond is examined. When operating under a challenging culture a Christian executive tended to avoid or compromise; whereas under a supportive culture one tended not to yield but dominate. It is found that Christian executives who tried to live out the same faith might take different normative considerations, and make different responses to a similar ethical challenge. In principle different responses to an ethical challenge can be equally Christian.
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2013
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