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The Personalist Ethic and the Market in Korea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Chang Yun-Shik
Chang Yun-Shik
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University of British Columbia
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The pattern of development that emerged in the early stage of industrialization in South Korea, according to the British sociologist Ronald Dore, is closer to the classical (nineteenth-century) small-scale, individualistic entrepreneurial type than the large-scale bureaucratic type that characterizes development in many other countries embarking upon modernization programs in recent years (Dore 1980:292). This arguably stems from the fact that economic growth accompanied by development of a market (in the broader sense of that term) that created opportunities for individual choices and initiatives.

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The Cultural Component of Economic Change
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , January 1991 , pp. 106 - 129
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1991

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