Preface

Hirochika NAKAMAKI

Introduction: On Business and Sacred Space

Hirochika NAKAMAKI and Mitchell SEDGWICK

Part I
The Sacred in Business: Values and Transformations

Framing Values: Symbolic Space in the Display of Art Works

Brian MOERAN

Tri-level Analysis of a Corporate Feast and Business Ritual

Tomoko HAMADA CONNOLLY

Contestation of the Sacred in Business: Modernization in Saudi Arabia

Ann JORDAN

Secular Ethics and the Continuations of Capitalism: Fetishes of Production, Career Hierarchy, and the Cult of the Leader in Japanese Industrial Corporations

Mitchell SEDGWICK

Sacred Places in Europe: A Second Life for Churches? A Case Study of the Protestant "Kapel" Church in Heemstede in the Netherlands

Meine Pieter van DIJK

Part II
The Sacred at the Workplace: Images and Spaces

Transnational Workspace on International Flights:
Japanese Flight Attendants on Non-Japanese Airlines

Keiko YAMAKI

"Bulgaria, the Holy Land of Yogurt": A Brand Myth and Management Philosophy

Maria YOTOVA

Innovation, Secrecy, and Sacred Space in a Japanese High-Tech Business

Liv Nyland KRAUSE

Part III
World Expositions as Sacred Spaces: State Projects and Nation Branding

“Expositions Universelles” as Sacred Places:
A View from Modern Paris World Expositions

Fumihiko ICHIKAWA

The Shanghai Expo as a Sacred Space

Hirochika NAKAMAKI

The Shanghai Expo as a Nation-Owned Enterprise:
A View from Enterprise Anthropology

Jijiao ZHANG

Part IV
Sacred Spaces in Chinese Business: Management Philosophies and Practices

Understanding Management Philosophy as Hegemony or Ideology:
Or, The First Step toward Business Anthropology

Dixon Heung Wah WONG

In Pursuit of Sacred Space: A Study of Modern Chinese Intellectual Businesspeople

Yingyan WANG

List of Contributors