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Westernization

About: Westernization is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1154 publications have been published within this topic receiving 15791 citations. The topic is also known as: occidentalization.


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01 Jan 2009
TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied forms of corporate governance in foreign owned companies in Estonia: cooperations between owners, council, and board in Estonian companies and found that the emerging pattern of CG is quite difficult to interpret according to the traditional Western models and varies greatly from country to country, because various institutions and the environment as a whole do not work or at least do not fully work in the case of transition countries.
Abstract: The last dozen years Corporate Governance (CG) has become an important subject in many countries around the world. Although it has been admitted that governance models vary greatly between different countries and that there is no single ideal model of governance (Mygind 1998), Turnbull (1997, 185) argues, most research about theory and practice of corporate governance has been heavily focused on English speaking countries, particularly on the US. Also Klijnsmit (2001, 25-26) claims that the issues in corporate governance (CG) have primarily been in Anglo-Saxon countries which are the centre of attention. The corporate governance problems as known in a market economy arose in CEE countries in connection with the privatization of large enterprises at the beginning of the 1990s, and to a large degree even afterwards. The emerging pattern of CG is quite difficult to interpret according to the traditional Western models and varies greatly from country to country, because various institutions and the environment as a whole do not work or at least do not work fully in the case of transition countries (Tafel et al, 2006). Therefore, CEE countries represent a very good testing ground for Corporate Governance (CG) related research. This paper studies forms of corporate governance in foreign owned companies in Estonia: cooperations between owners, council, and board in Estonian companies.

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01 Jan 1965

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01 Jan 2002
TL;DR: To be a European means to take possession of a civilization for oneself wholly, whereas to be like a European partially, by symbols, is constructed by concepts such as human rights, democracy, and civil society.
Abstract: Orientalism is a science from one point of view, is an ideology for another. It is possible to say that orientalism is comprehended as an ideology in Turkey. Westernization an modernization stay behind this mental comprehension. As a civilization project, Westernization was not being a European but it was a project insisting to be like a European. If We ask the question of Shakespeare’s famous character changing like, the main problem was to be or like to be. To be a European means to take possession of a civilization for oneself wholly. To be like a European means to take possession of only one part of that civilization for oneself. To take possession of being a European wholly means to be aware of civilization is constructed by concepts. Whereas to take possession of being like a European partially, by symbols! Reformists admit that playing piano for a women and speaking French for men are sufficient to be a European. Whereas, these are just symbols and these indicate not to be a European but like a European. Unfortunately, it is so lately realized that to be a European is not signified by such symbols, but it is signified with a few concepts such as “Human Rights”, “Democracy” and “Civil society”

2 citations

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Teruji Suzuki1
TL;DR: In this article, the authors define Westernization as public interest in non-western cultures, and present an analysis of the relationship between public interest and Westernization in nonwestern cultures.
Abstract: (1998). Westernization as public interest in non‐western cultures. International Review of Sociology: Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 377-387.

2 citations

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TL;DR: The authors argue that some elite Japanese, especially the former samurai, considered a package of Westernization that included not only the introduction of Western science but also Western values through Protestant Christianity which was seen as part of the "intellectual Westernization" of Japan.
Abstract: This paper will argue that some elite Japanese, especially the former samurai, considered a package of Westernization that included not only the introduction of Western science but also Western values through Protestant Christianity which was seen as part of the "intellectual Westernization" of Japan. Study in the US was, for some, the first step. The introduction of Darwinism into Japan and the popularity of Herbert Spencer's writings provided an obstacle to the spread of Christianity. The rise of nationalism and justification of the Imperial Rescript on Education (1890) in terms of the divinity of the Emperor meant that Christians were seen as having divided loyalties. From that point, the notion of Westernization and Christianity as a package that had some currency in the 1870s and 1880s declined. There were inherent tensions and contradictions in the relationship between science and Christianity that became obvious to the Japanese, and the Rescript introduced another element of potential conflict.

2 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
202366
2022165
202124
202035
201935
201838