Chinese Traditional Cultures and Corporate Management

Abstract

Comments from Max Weber on the Confucian ideology and Chinese traditional cultures which can deter the development of the modern industrialization have proved its accuracy by the history, but, according to the comments from Prof. C. Canchy, vice-chancellor of the Montreal University, Canada, on the 17th Philosophy Meeting in 1983, “From the past two hundred years, due to the success of the economic and technological achievements, the Western countries have proclaimed themselves to have advanced status. Now the gap between East and West has been narrowed to the point that there is a tendency of surpassing the Western economies by their Eastern counterparts. It is the right time to awake and learn from the East.” According to the development in the past 30 years, his opinion is logical and reasonable. The industrialization of Japanese economy in the 1970s and the leapfrog advancement of the Four Little Dragons in Asia can lead to a better prediction of the economic development trend of Eastern and Western countries in 1990s. How can we explain the above-mentioned arguments which are both contradictory and correct? In my opinion, it can be explained by the comments of Japanese sociologist Tomita.

Journal of Euro Asia, 11 (July 1996): 19–22