Half a Century of Enterprise Management in Colonial Taiwan From a“gQuasi-National-Policy Company”h to a National-Policy-Company

Fumikatsu Kubo

doi:10.5029/jrbh1984.14.59

Half a Century of Enterprise Management in Colonial Taiwan

From a“gQuasi-National-Policy Company”h to a National-Policy-Company

Fumikatsu Kubo

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1998 Volume 14 Pages 59-88

DOI https://doi.org/10.5029/jrbh1984.14.59

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Published: March 15, 1998 Received: - Available on J-STAGE: June 28, 2010 Accepted: - Advance online publication: - Revised: -
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Date of correction: June 28, 2010 Reason for correction: - Correction: CITATION Details: Right : 1For more on these two companies,please see F.Kubo,Shokuminchi kigye keieishi ron-“junkokusaku kaisha”no jisshoteki kenkyft[A treatise on the history of colonial enterprise management:An empirical study of a“quasi-national-policy company”],Tokyo:Nihon Keizai Hybronsha,1997.
2Sources for Table1:Soritsu sanshithen kinen jigyo gaikan[Conspectus of operations celebrating the third anniversary of founding],pp.157-63;Toyo Takushoku Kabushikigaisha sanjunen shi[A record of thirty years of Toyo Takushoku],pp.203-18,245-47;Minami Manshu Tetsudo Kabushikigaisha sanjunen ryakushi[Short history of30years of South Manchuria Railway],pp.2-10,24-27.
3In internal reserve funds I include the total sum of legal,special,dividend preparation,and pension reserves,and second-half carryover funds.
4These figures have been culled from Togyo Rengokai[Sugar Industry Association],ed.,Saihan seito kaisha yoran[General survey of sugar manufacturing companies(reprint ed.)],1933,pp.1-41;yearly editions of Taiwan Sugar Mfg.Co.'s Eigyo hokokusho[Business report];Kabushikigaisha Osakaya Shoten Chosabu[Research Dept.,Osakaya Shoten],ed.,Kabushikigaisha nenkan[Joint-stock companies year-book],years1925to1942;Shoken Hikiuke Kaisha Toseikai[Underwriters Control Association],ed., Kabushikigaisha nenkan,1943;idem,Kabushikigaisha nenpo[Jointstock companies annual report],1944;and Meiji Sugar,ed.,Meiji Seito Kabushikigaisha sanjunen shi[Thirty-year history of Meiji Sugar],1936,pp.63-66.
5Toyo Takushoku Kabushikigaisha sanjunen shi[A record of30years of Toyo Takushoku],1939,pp.77-78.
6By“thoroughgoing industrialization”I mean industrialization in various different ways pushed forward simultaneously in a plurality of industrial sectors other than the sugar manufacturing industry.
7In this study I am distinguishing between an economic“southern advance”and the political and military southern advance.
8The representative enterprises established by1938were:Nihon AruminyfimuK.K.in light metals(est.1935,capital of10million yen);Taiwan Denka K.K.in iron alloys(est.1935,capital of2million yen);Taiwan Kagaku Kogyo K.K.(est.1937,capi-tal of10million yen);TaiWan Pulp Kogyo K.K.in pulp(est.1938,capital of10million yen);Taiwan Senkyo K.K.in shipbuilding(est.1937,capital of5million yen);and Taiwan Kokusan JidOsha K.K.(est.1937,capital of500thousand yen).See Kamekichi Takahashi,Gendai Taiwan keizai ron[Study of the economy of modern Taiwan],Chikura Shobo,1936,pp.441-49.
9Listedin Table2are related companies in which shareholding was10%or more.Ph$stands for Philippine dollar.Source:Taiwan Takushoku,ed.,Jigyo gaikyOsho[Paper on general state of operations],pp.67-73.
10See Taiwan Takushoku K.K.,ed.,Jigyo gaikyo sho(Showa17nen gogatsu)[Paper on general state of operations,May1942],pp.21,25,35,37,38.
11The names of the presidents at the other companies besides Kaiyo Rinko and Taiwan Chikusan Kogyo were Hakusai Yamada(councilor at Taiwan Takushoku),at Taiwan Menka and Taiwan Yaban;Ichizo Onishi(director at T.T.),at Indoshina Sangyo;and Toyoji Kaneko(councilor at T.T.),at Firipin Sangyo.See Taiwan Ginko Taihoku Chosabu,ed.,Taiwan ni okeru shuyo kogyo kaisha shirabe(Showa17nenmatsu genzai)[Survey of principal industrial companies in Taiwan(as of the end of 1942)],pp. 2-9.
12Taiwan Takushoku,ed.,Jigyo gaikan[Conspectus of operations],pp.148-49.
13Jigyo gaikyo sho,p.24.
14These figures distilled from ibid.,pp.26-30.
15Ibid.,p.40.

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