Title: A Comparative Study of Korean, Chinese, and Japanese Traditional Family and Contemporary Business Organizations
Abstract: Although China, Japan, and Korea have shared a common cultural tradition of broadly defined Confucianism, which as whole is quite different from the Western tradition, their modern fate diverged after the East came to contact with the West around the middle of the 19th century and throughout the 20th century, the three countries followed different paths for modernization, national building and industrialization that also produced different results. However, in the last few decades, the paths of these countries begin to converge. With China shedding its communist ideology, and returning to a more market oriented economic development strategy that approximates the path that other East Asian countries followed, and increasingly drawing its inspiration from China’s own tradition and resources rather than from exported ideologies, it has become more imperative to critically examine similarity and differences among these three countries. This paper attempt to analyze what is believed to have continuing bearing on the actual operation of contemporary business organization. As an initial part of a larger project on comparative study of institutional template in these countries, this paper exclusively focuses on the traditional family structures in China, Korea, and Japan., under the concept of “institutional template.
Publication Year: 2008
Publication Date: 2008-05-01
Language: en
Type: article
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