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Elite entrepreneurship education: Translating ideas in North Korea

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posted on 2023-08-30, 15:25 authored by Thomas Wainwright, Ewald Kibler, Jukka-Pekka Heikkilä, Simon Down
The recent geographies of education literature has drawn attention to the role of elite business education in circulating new ideas. Our paper presents an ethnography based in North Korea to examine the introduction of an international business education for young generations of North Korean elites (‘donjus’). Drawing on extant literatures on translation, our study shows how the translation of entrepreneurial ideas between market-orientated economies and North Korea’s political economy creates different legitimacy tensions within teaching space, and how those tensions are managed to help translate ideas, making them relevant for the local economy. In conclusion, we introduce new understanding of how business schools function as a hub of idea translation and foster the (re-)production of economic elites in an institutional space where commercial entrepreneurship is still illegal.

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Refereed

  • Yes

Volume

50

Issue number

5

Page range

1008-1026

Publication title

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space

ISSN

1472-3409

Publisher

SAGE

File version

  • Accepted version

Language

  • eng

Legacy posted date

2018-06-26

Legacy creation date

2018-06-26

Legacy Faculty/School/Department

ARCHIVED Lord Ashcroft International Business School (until September 2018)

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