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Interview data from Chinese executives are used to test hypotheses that private-company executives rely more on business connections for protection, give connections more gifts, and develop more trust in connections than collective-hybrid or state-owned company executives. Personal relationships in transitional societies thus seem to substitute for institutional support characteristics of developed societies.
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