TY - JOUR
T1 - Utilizing printed media to understand desired leadership attributes in the People's Republic of China
AU - Fu, Ping Ping
AU - Tsui, Anne S.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was kindly supported by a United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia Faculty Research Grant. We would like to thank graduate students at Fudan University and Chinese University of Hong Kong for helping with the coding of the newspaper content. We would also like to thank Chung Ming Lau, Marshall Meyer, Miriam Erez and our anonymous reviewer for their useful suggestions and comments.
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - Using news media as a reliable source, we content analyzed stories on business leaders in two major official Chinese newspapers in three different time periods over the past 20 years. Results show that the reform has brought an increase in stories of business leaders, and in coverage of the desirable leadership attributes relating to Confucian virtues, communist ideologies, and modern management philophies. The results suggest that, by publicizing and adorning specific leaders in both government and business sectors in the official media, the government reinforces the traditional values that are consistent with communist ideologies, and at the same time, it also introduces Western management values to suit the current needs of the society. The results of our study echo the findings of empirical studies on Chinese values data used data collected using other methods. We therefore encourage future research to use the printed media as a potentially valuable source of data for tracking changes in social phenomena in a society over time.
AB - Using news media as a reliable source, we content analyzed stories on business leaders in two major official Chinese newspapers in three different time periods over the past 20 years. Results show that the reform has brought an increase in stories of business leaders, and in coverage of the desirable leadership attributes relating to Confucian virtues, communist ideologies, and modern management philophies. The results suggest that, by publicizing and adorning specific leaders in both government and business sectors in the official media, the government reinforces the traditional values that are consistent with communist ideologies, and at the same time, it also introduces Western management values to suit the current needs of the society. The results of our study echo the findings of empirical studies on Chinese values data used data collected using other methods. We therefore encourage future research to use the printed media as a potentially valuable source of data for tracking changes in social phenomena in a society over time.
KW - Chinese news media
KW - Cultural values
KW - Leadership attributes
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/33751367043
U2 - 10.1023/A:1026373124564
DO - 10.1023/A:1026373124564
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33751367043
SN - 0217-4561
VL - 20
SP - 423
EP - 446
JO - Asia Pacific Journal of Management
JF - Asia Pacific Journal of Management
IS - 4
ER -