Helper Kanji: What is 状 doing here


Given the sentence:

> 今日は大学の講義で日本状の経営について学んだ。

I usually interpretate 状 as 'state, condition', but that doesn't seem to fit
here (japanese state of business management?). Looking online, lead to 状 as
'styled' and 'japanese styled business management' does make way more sense.

How often does 状 mean 'styled'? Are there other examples?

Why doesn't 日本式 work here instead?




なんかこれ変。

The statement "今日は大学の講義で日本状の経営について学んだ。" just doesn't sound right to me and I'm
a native. I can see what it wants to say, but it just isn't right. Is this on
some sort of textbook? Where is this from? At least it certainly isn't
something a Japanese person would write. You are right to suggest 式.

Alternatively, 流 (ryu) would work too.

今日は大学の講義で日本式の経営について学んだ。 今日は大学の講義で日本流の経営について学んだ。

