 Ultimately, the relationships formed by "guanxi" are personal and not transferable.In China, a country where business relations are highly socially embedded, "guanxi" plays a central role in the shaping and development of day-to-day business transactions by allowing inter-business relationships and relationships between businesses and the government to grow as individuals representing these organizations work with one another.Specifically, in a business context, "guanxi" occurs through individual interactions first before being applied on a corporate level (e.g., one member of a business may perform a favor for a member of another business because they have interpersonal ties, which helps to facilitate the relationship between the two businesses involved in this interaction).