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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。
