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Elite entrepreneurship education: Translating ideas in North Korea
journal contribution
posted on 2023-08-30, 15:25 authored by Thomas Wainwright, Ewald Kibler, Jukka-Pekka Heikkilä, Simon DownThe 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.
History
Refereed
- Yes
Volume
50Issue number
5Page range
1008-1026Publication title
Environment and Planning A: Economy and SpaceISSN
1472-3409External DOI
Publisher
SAGEFile version
- Accepted version
Language
- eng