明治初年における流通再編の試み : 大阪総産会社の場合
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The Osaka-sosan-kaisha, established in 1873 as a commercial firm in Osaka, revealed several problems in the process of its decaying which were contained in Japanese commercialism in itself. The promoters as well as the top managers of this firm were members of KONOIKEYA family, the famous money broker. They could set up nine branch offices in the western parts of Japan, by stirring the commercial ro industrial interests of local merchants. The local merchants, who based their business on the traditional grounds of the han-senbai-sei or on the foundations of rural industries, were competing for hegemony over the growing productive markets that were generated by the deline of feudalism and by the irresistible impulse of producing exports. They asked the Osaka-sosan-kaisha for money and more profitable marketing channel. But the Osaka-sosan-kaisha could not afford their demands, partly for the character of its core capital that, being mostly composed of "hansai", was damaged by "hansai-shobun", partly for lack of commercial experience with which to run firm. Soon they broke off their connection with the Osaka-sosan-kaisha and began to raise funds apart from their central firm-some of them would be succeeded by the commercial bands-and to proceed to foreign trade by their own hands. Some of legal cases concerning their foreign trades drove their central firm into a tight corner. We can find some important problems in the course of rise and fall of the Osaka-sosan-aisha, especially from the point of view of an unsucceeful attempt to modernize the structure of distribution.
- 1989-12-30