China
Chinese culture and its impact on its economic
In the last week, we have been studying and analysing China in economical, social and cultural factors, the richness of their culture causes me great interest on it and admiration. It´s well known around the world that Chinese culture, based on a long term orientation regarding business relationships, their sincerity and clear way of arranging business made them to achieve a lot of goals in the world economy.
Chinese culture and its impact on its economic
In the last week, we have been studying and analysing China in economical, social and cultural factors, the richness of their culture causes me great interest on it and admiration. It´s well known around the world that Chinese culture, based on a long term orientation regarding business relationships, their sincerity and clear way of arranging business made them to achieve a lot of goals in the world economy.
Chinese society is ruled by the governmental law, its important to mention that China went through Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors period, fact that certainly influence behaviors and cultural patterns. Social values are derived from Confucianism and Taoism with a combination of conservatism. Reincarnation and other rebirth concept is a reminder of the connection between real-life and the next-life. Their language is very rich, written with symbols and with different dialects spoken in all regions of China, but having always the mandarin as the formal language.
Some factors might be take in count when negotiating with Chinese people, I found this info appropriate for us as students of international business, since it provides us an idea of how Chinese people do business and their behavior toward them, here some important facts:
• Long-term relationships.
• Beneficial relationship is more important.
• The collectivist way of thinking.
• High centralization.
• China is built on a strong sense of pride in their ancient history and culture.
• Punctuality.
• Trust.
• Hierarchical Structure.
Organisations in China
Google Inc case in China
• Long-term relationships.
• Beneficial relationship is more important.
• The collectivist way of thinking.
• High centralization.
• China is built on a strong sense of pride in their ancient history and culture.
• Punctuality.
• Trust.
• Hierarchical Structure.
Organisations in China
Google Inc case in China
1. What did Google do right in China? Why?
• Google is following China’s law of giving restricted information on the internet that include “harmful” content included material concerning democracy, religious cults or antigovernment pretests (Tiananmen Square).
• They are also contributing with the warning showed to every user that access to the internet: “internet users must comply with the law” and not let “harmful” or “threatened” information spread through the web.
• With the removal of some content in the internet they are cooperating with China’s government image that they want to give to their citizens of a good, clean and discrete government.
• Google is following one of its main principles, which is provide information to the internet users even if its filtered information.
• Google is acting in favor of the international practice because it is regulating the internet according to law. They are contributing with the blockage of some web pages that may involve pornography, terrorism… all in order to protect the Chinese people and more over Chinese government image among its citizens.
• When creating www.google.cn , Google followed Chinese exceptionalism: “China is different from everyone else” and “China will do what China does, and you can’t interfere” This means they needed to adapt China’s conditions in order to be on their market.
2. What did Google do wrong in China? Why?
• Google is removing search results on the internet among China, which is inconsistent with its mission of providing information to all of its internet users.
• Google is not following its policies when giving unreal information to Chinese internet users. In order to keep the Chinese market, is manipulating the information according to the law, and its being unethical with this citizens making them think that what Google provides its true, when it isn’t.
• Google is not letting Chinese people to have their human rights, especially when talking about free expression. Every individual in the world is free to express itself in all ways. Chinese do not have this right of express themselves or read and see whatever they want.
• Google is not communicating important news such as AIDS epidemic, safety conditions in mines, poisoning of the Songhua River, among others. With the non-providence of information, Chinese are assuming a risk of getting any illness and the government is taking away the right of information in and outside the country.
• Google betrayed Chinese when it started to manipulate www.google.com making it slower and making it stop working for 2 weeks, and then coming with this new idea of www.google.cn which was promoted as a “faster and more reliable and provided more and better search results for all but a handful of politically sensitive subjects”
• The chinese communist party has not been able to sustain the establishment of equity or equality that promises and google is trying to keep a system based on lies, leaving aside the integrity of the nation.
3. What should you have done if you were Mr. Tom MacLean?
• I had done the same, Mr. Tom maclean fought for his position in google inc. He only fulfilled with chinese law in order to participate in this market. All this in order to keep his job and be able to expand google on the international market.
He acomplished Google´s inc mission, which is mainly based on providing information around the world, and he did so, except that he had to keep some precepts from chinese law in order to achive his goal that was entering completly into the chinese market, if he didnt make it, probably other company will, as Yahoo, altavista etc… he just aimed to gain this huge market.
As i see it, Mr. Tom MacLean showed respect for Google inc, but also with the Chinese government; Chinese people must be aware that restrictions were made and asked by their government not by Google, so its up to the government to face this contradiction in their legal system in front of all Chinese population.
References
• Google is following China’s law of giving restricted information on the internet that include “harmful” content included material concerning democracy, religious cults or antigovernment pretests (Tiananmen Square).
• They are also contributing with the warning showed to every user that access to the internet: “internet users must comply with the law” and not let “harmful” or “threatened” information spread through the web.
• With the removal of some content in the internet they are cooperating with China’s government image that they want to give to their citizens of a good, clean and discrete government.
• Google is following one of its main principles, which is provide information to the internet users even if its filtered information.
• Google is acting in favor of the international practice because it is regulating the internet according to law. They are contributing with the blockage of some web pages that may involve pornography, terrorism… all in order to protect the Chinese people and more over Chinese government image among its citizens.
• When creating www.google.cn , Google followed Chinese exceptionalism: “China is different from everyone else” and “China will do what China does, and you can’t interfere” This means they needed to adapt China’s conditions in order to be on their market.
2. What did Google do wrong in China? Why?
• Google is removing search results on the internet among China, which is inconsistent with its mission of providing information to all of its internet users.
• Google is not following its policies when giving unreal information to Chinese internet users. In order to keep the Chinese market, is manipulating the information according to the law, and its being unethical with this citizens making them think that what Google provides its true, when it isn’t.
• Google is not letting Chinese people to have their human rights, especially when talking about free expression. Every individual in the world is free to express itself in all ways. Chinese do not have this right of express themselves or read and see whatever they want.
• Google is not communicating important news such as AIDS epidemic, safety conditions in mines, poisoning of the Songhua River, among others. With the non-providence of information, Chinese are assuming a risk of getting any illness and the government is taking away the right of information in and outside the country.
• Google betrayed Chinese when it started to manipulate www.google.com making it slower and making it stop working for 2 weeks, and then coming with this new idea of www.google.cn which was promoted as a “faster and more reliable and provided more and better search results for all but a handful of politically sensitive subjects”
• The chinese communist party has not been able to sustain the establishment of equity or equality that promises and google is trying to keep a system based on lies, leaving aside the integrity of the nation.
3. What should you have done if you were Mr. Tom MacLean?
• I had done the same, Mr. Tom maclean fought for his position in google inc. He only fulfilled with chinese law in order to participate in this market. All this in order to keep his job and be able to expand google on the international market.
He acomplished Google´s inc mission, which is mainly based on providing information around the world, and he did so, except that he had to keep some precepts from chinese law in order to achive his goal that was entering completly into the chinese market, if he didnt make it, probably other company will, as Yahoo, altavista etc… he just aimed to gain this huge market.
As i see it, Mr. Tom MacLean showed respect for Google inc, but also with the Chinese government; Chinese people must be aware that restrictions were made and asked by their government not by Google, so its up to the government to face this contradiction in their legal system in front of all Chinese population.
References
Warner, Malcolm. 2004. Human resource management in China revisited: introduction. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 15(4/5): 617-34.
Case study: Google inc. in China
Arango, Maria Isabel. Organisations and Culture. Class notes. 2009
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