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Rethinking Confucianism: Family Business and the Ritual Construction of the ‘Family’ in Japan and China

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East Asian business systems are often referred to ‘Confucianism’, grounded in influential global value studies. We present the case for moving ‘ritual’ at the centre and approaching Confucianism only as a theory of ritual, but not as covering core beliefs and practices. Our testing ground is family business since the family is a core concern in Confucianism, and we compare Japan and China. Based on a discussion of ritual theory, we show how in Japan rituals mediate and generate the corporate identity of the family business and kinship as a form of organizational membership. In China, rituals of kinship define a network of relations which transcends organizational borders. In conclusion, Confucianism cannot cover these divergent performances of ritual across East Asia but can be conceived as a non-Western social theory that explicitly recognizes the central role of ritual in social order, including domains such as family business.

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Caspary, S.C., Herrmann-Pillath, C. (2023). Rethinking Confucianism: Family Business and the Ritual Construction of the ‘Family’ in Japan and China. In: Koellner, T. (eds) Family Firms and Business Families in Cross-Cultural Perspective. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20525-5_6

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