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

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 inno...

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Published in:Business history 2009-11, Vol.51 (6), p.927-958
Main Author: Choi, Eugene K.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Business history
Company growth
Competition
Competitive advantage
Competitiveness
Conceptualization
Coordination
Cotton
Cotton industry
Cotton trade
Economic growth
Economic history
entrepreneurial management
Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurship
global competition
Growth
History
Indian cotton industry
industrial competitiveness
Japanese cotton industry
Long term planning
Meiji Japan
Meiji period
Mitsui Trading Company
Osaka Cotton Spinning Company
Senjiro Watanabe
Studies
Takeo Yamanobe
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0007-6791
1743-7938
DOI:10.1080/00076790903266877