Jane Nolan is Associate Professor in Organizational Behaviour at the Business School, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK. She has published on a wide range of areas, including expatriate management, institutional change and corporate governance in China as well as gender, work and employment. Chris Rowley is Visiting Fellow at Kellogg College, University of Oxford, UK, and Professor Emeritus at Cass Business School, City, University of London, UK. He publishes widely on many aspects of work, employment and Asian business and management and provides expert opinion and comments for the international media.

• Dedication to Malcolm WarnerJane Nolan and Chris Rowley Malcolm Warner: a tributeGordon Redding1. Whither the theory and practice of guanxi and social networks: a critical analysis and overviewJane Nolan and Chris Rowley2. Ethical cronyism: an insider approach for building guanxi and leveraging business performance in ChinaT.K.P. Leung and Bradley R. Barnes3. Elective affinity between guanxi favouritism and market rationality: guanxi circles as governance structure in China’s private firmsYanjie Bian and Man Shuai4. The influence of guanxi on organizational justice and fairness: the example of performance appraisals in Chinese banksFan Gu, Jane Nolan and Chris Rowley5. Gendered and sexualized guanxi: the use of erotic capital in the workplace in urban ChinaLing Tang6. Founders social ties, learning and entrepreneurial knowledge acquisition in ChinaBiaoan Shan and Xifeng Lu

Jane Nolan is Associate Professor in Organizational Behaviour at the Business School, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK. She has published on a wide range of areas, including expatriate management, institutional change and corporate governance in China as well as gender, work and employment. Chris Rowley is Visiting Fellow at Kellogg College, University of Oxford, UK, and Professor Emeritus at Cass Business School, City, University of London, UK. He publishes widely on many aspects of work, employment and Asian business and management and provides expert opinion and comments for the international media.

• Dedication to Malcolm WarnerJane Nolan and Chris Rowley Malcolm Warner: a tributeGordon Redding1. Whither the theory and practice of guanxi and social networks: a critical analysis and overviewJane Nolan and Chris Rowley2. Ethical cronyism: an insider approach for building guanxi and leveraging business performance in ChinaT.K.P. Leung and Bradley R. Barnes3. Elective affinity between guanxi favouritism and market rationality: guanxi circles as governance structure in China’s private firmsYanjie Bian and Man Shuai4. The influence of guanxi on organizational justice and fairness: the example of performance appraisals in Chinese banksFan Gu, Jane Nolan and Chris Rowley5. Gendered and sexualized guanxi: the use of erotic capital in the workplace in urban ChinaLing Tang6. Founders social ties, learning and entrepreneurial knowledge acquisition in ChinaBiaoan Shan and Xifeng Lu