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The Chinese paradigm of global supplier relationships: Social control, formal interactions and the mediating role of culture [PDF]

open access: possibleIndustrial Marketing Management, 2012
This paper reports the results of a study that examined how firms can establish successful business relationships with Chinese suppliers. Its aim is to explore salient characteristics of the nature of buyer supplier relationships with the emergence of China as a dominant economic power.
M. Giannakis, D. Doran, Shan Chen
semanticscholar   +3 more sources

Collective Sanctions and Compliance Norms: A Formal Theory of Group-Mediated Social Control [PDF]

open access: possibleAmerican Sociological Review, 1990
The link between external sanctions and intragroup normative control is examined to distinguish the conditions under which the two control systems augment or weaken one another.
D. Heckathorn
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

Culture and Formal Social Control: The Effect of the Code of the Street on Police and Court Decision-making

Justice Quarterly, 2017
Objectives. Drawing on several interrelated lines of scholarship, we argue that cultural beliefs at individual and neighborhood levels may affect police and court decisions. We hypothesize that individuals who more strongly adhere to the code of the street or reside in areas where the street code culture is more strongly embraced will be more likely to
D. Mears   +3 more
semanticscholar   +3 more sources

Racial Disparity in Formal Social Control

Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 2008
Prior research on racial disparities in arrest rates has been limited by an almost exclusive focus on two explanatory models, an inattention to the mediating processes identified in leading theories, and a relative neglect of nonindex crimes, for which police discretion is greater.
Graham C. Ousey, Matthew R. Lee
semanticscholar   +3 more sources

A Letter from China: Social Control in China—A Formal or an Informal Mechanism?

Crime Prevention and Community Safety, 2001
Many think that formal social control refers to a criminal justice system in which there are rather many state organs/agencies (eg, police, courts, prisons) to maintain public order, while informal social control refers to the broader social system. This paper argues that China has traditionally established a social control system by making use of the ...
H. Toby
semanticscholar   +3 more sources

The interplay of relational governance and formal control in horizontal alliances: : a social contract perspective

Journal of Supply Chain Management, 2014
Governance is critical to an alliance relationship as it aids in curbing opportunism and thus in achieving higher performance. While research suggests relational governance as well as formal control mechanisms as viable means to reduce opportunistic ...
Carl Marcus Wallenburg   +1 more
semanticscholar   +3 more sources

Reliance on Formal Written Law, and Freedom and Social Control in the United States and the People's Republic of China

The British Journal of Sociology, 1975
The use of formal written law is highly developed in the United States (U.S.). Agents of the state publish innumerable substantive rules as to how people shall and shall not act, and procedural rules as to how agents of the state shall react to ...
Harold E. Pepinsky
semanticscholar   +3 more sources

Social Control of Crime in Asia

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 2021
The social control of crime is diversified across societies. The social control of crime in Asia inherits features that are unique to Asian cultural traditions (e.g., Confucianism and Islamism) and strives by exploring more effective models by balancing ...
Hua Zhong, S. Zhang
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Formal control and social control in domestic and international buyer–supplier relationships

Journal of Operations Management, 2010
Hock Hai Teo   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

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