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Book Chapter: It Is Not That All Cultures Have Business, But That All Business Has Culture
Title | It Is Not That All Cultures Have Business, But That All Business Has Culture |
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Issue Date | 2020 |
Publisher | Routledge |
Citation | It Is Not That All Cultures Have Business, But That All Business Has Culture. In Mir, R & Fayard, AL (Eds.), Routledge Companion to Anthropology and Business, p. 453-472. New York, NY: Routledge, 2020 How to Cite? |
Abstract | The idea of the joint-stock company was originally invented in Europe and spread to the rest of the world. The general view among the scholars of different disciplines is that culture is always a factor secondary to a more fundamental reason for, or logic of, human behavior. Economists, for example, tend to argue that culture as a residual factor might change the priority of valuable objects people pursue. But for them the fundamental logic for human behavior is the principle of maximization of self-interest. The chapter argues that the notion of the kaisha can be conceived as a modern re-arrangement of the traditional ie. The superiority of the kaisha over other stakeholders has been a recursive feature of a history starting from the traditional ie via pre-modern business establishments to modern corporations in Japan. Understanding Chinese kinship as ‘mutuality of being’ can further help us to understand the Chinese family ethics. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/286577 |
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dc.contributor.author | Wong, HW | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-08-31T07:05:45Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2020-08-31T07:05:45Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | It Is Not That All Cultures Have Business, But That All Business Has Culture. In Mir, R & Fayard, AL (Eds.), Routledge Companion to Anthropology and Business, p. 453-472. New York, NY: Routledge, 2020 | - |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9781138496422 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/286577 | - |
dc.description.abstract | The idea of the joint-stock company was originally invented in Europe and spread to the rest of the world. The general view among the scholars of different disciplines is that culture is always a factor secondary to a more fundamental reason for, or logic of, human behavior. Economists, for example, tend to argue that culture as a residual factor might change the priority of valuable objects people pursue. But for them the fundamental logic for human behavior is the principle of maximization of self-interest. The chapter argues that the notion of the kaisha can be conceived as a modern re-arrangement of the traditional ie. The superiority of the kaisha over other stakeholders has been a recursive feature of a history starting from the traditional ie via pre-modern business establishments to modern corporations in Japan. Understanding Chinese kinship as ‘mutuality of being’ can further help us to understand the Chinese family ethics. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Routledge | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Routledge Companion to Anthropology and Business | - |
dc.title | It Is Not That All Cultures Have Business, But That All Business Has Culture | - |
dc.type | Book_Chapter | - |
dc.identifier.email | Wong, HW: hwwongc@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Wong, HW=rp01232 | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.4324/9781003052456-24 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 313778 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 453 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 472 | - |
dc.publisher.place | New York, NY | - |