Entrepreneurship in the textbook business in modern East Asia. Kinkodo of Meiji Japan and the Commercial Press of early twentieth-century China.

Autor/inn/en	So, Billy K L.; So, Sufumi
Titel	Entrepreneurship in the textbook business in modern East Asia. Kinkodo of Meiji Japan and the Commercial Press of early twentieth-century China.
Quelle	In: Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 80 (2017) 3, S. 547-569 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0041-977X; 1474-0699
DOI	10.1017/S0041977X17000933
Schlagwörter	Schulbuch; China; Japan; Ostasien
Abstract	This article compares the ways in which two major textbook publishers in East Asia - namely Kinkodo in Meiji Japan and the Commercial Press in early twentieth-century China - practised the Western model of corporations to build a new kind of publishing business in their respective societies, which were undergoing significant transformation. The study suggests that, although the use of the model could imply global business convergence, its transplantation process was largely shaped by entrepreneurs who negotiated the Western model as an alternative newly opened to them and brought to light variant forms of practice tailored to serve their own aspirations in corporate directions such as industrial integration and ownership structure. The two cases present two distinct patterns of developing a new textbook publishing business under the same corporation model.
Erfasst von	Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsmedien \| Georg-Eckert-Institut (GEI), Braunschweig
Update	2020/2