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How Even a Giant Conveyer is Limited in its Impact by the Timidity of the Self-Effacing Entrepreneur

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The private associations of the type found in Europe and North America were introduced into Japan as a part of the process of industrialization. Japan’s economic advance was accompanied by conservatism in the social and political sphere in the relatively successful attempt to retain a large measure of traditional ethics and modes of behavior.1 The traditional elements facilitated development by helping to make early factory organization function in the Asian cultural environment, but it also slowed or hindered the full development of the associational form and the voluntary sphere of society in which it was elaborated. Traditional attitudes in Japan make associations diverge from their foreign models even today despite close resemblance.

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Heidenheimer, A.J., Langdon, F.C. (1968). How Even a Giant Conveyer is Limited in its Impact by the Timidity of the Self-Effacing Entrepreneur. In: Business Associations and the Financing of Political Parties. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-8894-4_4

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