关键词: 关系,关系治理,嵌入性,文化,效用

Abstract: Relationship governance can exert an important influence on organizational management. This article reviews the researches on the connotation, affecting factors and its utility of relationship governance. It believes that in view of the cultural differences between China and foreign countries, the understanding of relationship governance has something in common, while there are also some differences. The same point is that all regard relationship governance as a governance mode formed by embedding informal relationship into organizational management; while the differences lie in the different understanding of the connotation, utility and mode of relationship governance. On the basis of reviewing the literatures, this study puts forward some issues of relationship governance to be further discussed by localized researches.

Key words: relations; relationship governance; embeddedness; culture; utility