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Authority and Benevolence: the Confucian Recipe for Industrial Success*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2014

Ronald Dore
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I ONCE PERSUADED MYSELF THAT I COULD DISTINGUISH AT least seven different meanings of the term ‘individualism’ but I shall mention here only two. The fust is individualism in contradistinction to spiritual and emotional identification with a group. The second is individualism in contradistinction to dependence on some individual other, or others, who are in some sense deemed superior. One of my themes today is the interaction between the two: between self-assertion vis-à-vis the group, and self-assertion vis-à-vis established authority, and what this tells us about the way industrial concerns can be or ought to be organized in modern societies.

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Government and Opposition , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , 01 April 1985 , pp. 196 - 217
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Copyright © Government and Opposition Ltd 1985

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