Where Do Social Ties Come From: Institutional Framework and Governmental Tie Distribution among Chinese Managers
研究指出社会制度框架导致社会关系分布不均，通过对250家中国企业的分析发现，国企管理者比非国企管理者拥有更多结识政府官员的渠道，这些渠道完全中介了所有制类型与政府关系数量之间的关系。
This study identifies the societal institutional framework as the cause for the tie distribution issue — the sizes of ego-networks of social actors are unevenly distributed across social categories of these social actors. The analysis of 250 Chinese firms showed that managers employed by state-owned enterprises possess more governmental tie channels – conduits to get acquainted with government officials – than those employed by non-state-owned enterprises. Governmental tie channels completely mediated the relationship between ownership types and the number of government ties in the manager's social network.