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

Eugene Choi

Business History, 2009, vol. 51, issue 6, 927-958

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Meiji Japan; Japanese cotton industry; Indian cotton industry; entrepreneurial management; industrial competitiveness; global competition; Takeo Yamanobe; Osaka Cotton Spinning Company; Senjiro Watanabe; Mitsui Trading Company (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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