WESTERN AND CHINESE STYLE MANAGEMENT COMMENT FROM A PRACTITIONER ON PHILIPPE D'IRIBARNE'S ARTICLE: 'IN CHINA, BETWEEN GUANXI AND THE CELESTIAL BUREAUCRACY'

摘要

For anyone who likes China, Philipe d'Iribarne's analysis reads the way you would savour a dish like Peking Duck, with gourmandise and relish, and in several very well defined steps! The attack is crisp: he tells us about the manager's version of the lack of political democracy in the Middle Empire, it prepares us for a methodical illustration of the autocratic exercise of power in the world of business, accompanied by "the submission of executives and the weight of the relations network (guanxi)". But, very soon, a contrast in texture heightens the attraction of the Lafarge case: the exercise of authority also means leading by example, by suggestion, by respect and attention, and by tact! This complementary analysis gives the entry into the subject all of its flavour, made all the more delicious by its being heightened through piercing comparison with "the clear cut affirmation of the American exercise of authority".