Jinmyaku 人脈
Horak, S. (2019). Jinmyaku. In: Global Informality Project (INF), A. Ledeneva
(ed.), University College London,
avaiable at: http://www.in-formality.com/wiki/index.php?title=Jinmyaku_(Japan),
17 May 2019.
Abstract
The Japanese term jinmyaku (人脈) loosely translates as ‘personal
connections’. The word jin stands for ‘person’ and myaku
translates as ‘vein’, as in a geological vein of mineral deposits. (...) Members
of a jinmyaku network support and help each other in terms of career
progression and in making decisions (...)
Keywords
Jinmyaku, informal network
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