Provis, Chris2019-09-252019-09-252010-03-082004http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/174047Guanxi has been discussed as an especially Chinese phenomenon, and analysed in terms of its economic functions. Recently, a number of accounts have examined its ethical implications, which are sometimes thought to include acceptance of corruption and nepotism. It has different forms, but it is widely accepted as involving cultivation of long-term relationships rather than fee-for-service bribery. Ethical accounts which focus on its economic effects are at odds with the developing strand of Western thought which accepts personal relationships as sources of moral obligation. There are complexities to deciding what obligations arise from personal relationships in business life, but there is room to evaluate economic arrangements by how well they facilitate personal relationships, as well as the other way round.engWith permission of the license/copyright holdernepotismcorruptionBriberybusiness ethicsrelational ethicsEconomic ethicsBusiness ethicsConference proceedings