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Entrepreneurial leadership in the Meiji cotton spinners' early conceptualisation of global competition

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The superior competitiveness of the Japanese cotton industry became so obvious in the interwar period. The sources of the Japanese competitive advantage have thus collected considerable scholarly interest. A series of past studies stressed the significance of planned coordination and managerial innovations within the industry as a whole, and this involved their findings that the leading spinners and trading companies realised the efficient coordination. This paper inquires into the Meiji industrial leaders' conceptualisation of the new nature of entrepreneurial management. This entails an analysis of their early entrepreneurial leadership in the 1880s that provided the developing industry with a long-range plan for exponential growth since then. The essence of industrial competitiveness resided in the noticeable cognitive commonality in their sustainable core competence for the upcoming global competition.

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  • Eugene Choi, 2009. "Entrepreneurial leadership in the Meiji cotton spinners' early conceptualisation of global competition," Business History, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 51(6), pages 927-958.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:bushst:v:51:y:2009:i:6:p:927-958
    DOI: 10.1080/00076790903266877
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    1. Hutková, Karolina, 2017. "Transfer of European technologies and their adaptations: the case of the Bengal silk industry in the late-eighteenth century," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 69819, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    2. Eugene K. Choi, 2011. "Another Spinning Innovation: The Case Of The Rattling Spindle, Garabō, In The Development Of The Japanese Spinning Industry," Australian Economic History Review, Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand, vol. 51(1), pages 22-45, March.

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