马来西亚当代佛教组织的业务结构合理化:以五个佛教慈善机构为例

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Yok Fee Lee, Kok On Low
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自21世纪初以来,许多当代佛教组织已在马来西亚注册。本文旨在分析五个当代佛教组织的组织结构和经营理念的合理化问题。通过深入访谈、电话访谈和观察等方法,从举报人和选定机构的网站收集定性数据。韦伯的理性化概念被用于分析从现场收集的数据以及二手数据。在组织结构方面,我们的分析显示,五个选定的佛教组织中有两个,即克切拉和慈济,是高度结构化和形式化的。此外,他们的官僚主义与韦伯强调可计算性、可预测性、控制和资本主义的合理化模型是一致的。在商业方面,五个选定的佛教组织中有两个不参与商业,即佛光国际协会和那烂陀佛教协会。换句话说,这两个组织表明,佛教的规范和价值观并没有使信徒以积累财富为目标,然后创造资本主义精神。然而,克切拉、慈济和佛教商业网络确实积极参与商业活动,以创造自己的收入。可计算性、可预测性、控制和资本主义等要素在这三家机构的业务参与中也很重要。总的来说,这项研究间接地突出了马来西亚五个选定的当代佛教组织在组织结构和业务参与方面的异同,这些组织基于韦伯的合理化概念。
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Rationalising the Business Structure of Contemporary Buddhist Organisations in Malaysia: A Case Study of Five Buddhist Charities
Many contemporary Buddhist organisations have registered in Malaysia since the early 21st century. This article aims to analyse the issues of rationalisation in terms of the structure of organisational and the business concepts of five contemporary Buddhist organisations. In-depth interview, telephone interview, and observation were the methods used to gather qualitative data from the informants and the websites of the selected organisations. Weber’s concepts of rationalisation were employed to analyse data collected from the field as well as the secondary data. In terms of the organisational structure, our analysis revealed that two out of five selected Buddhist organisations, namely Kechara and Tzu Chi, are highly structured and formalised. In addition, their bureaucracy is in line with Weber’s rationalisation model that emphasised calculability, predictability, control, and capitalism. In terms of business, two out of five selected Buddhist organisations, namely the Buddha’s Light International Association and the Nalanda Buddhist Society do not participate in business. In other words, these two organisations showed that the Buddhist’s norm and values do not rationalise the believers into accumulating wealth as their goal and then creating the spirit of capitalism. However, the Kechara, Tzu Chi, and Buddhist Business Network do actively participate in business activities to generate their own income. The elements of calculability, predictability, control, and capitalism are significant in all the three organisations’ business involvement too. Overall, this study has indirectly highlighted the similarities and differences of the five selected contemporary Buddhist organisations in Malaysia with respect to their structure of organisation and business involvement based on Weber’s concepts of rationalisation.
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