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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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