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Embedded entrepreneurship : market, culture, and micro-business in insular Southeast Asia
- Title
- Embedded entrepreneurship : market, culture, and micro-business in insular Southeast Asia / edited by Eldar Bråten.
- Publication
- Leiden : Koninklijke Brill nV, 2013.
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- Description
- x, 328 pages; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "Examines the importance of cultural meaning in the creation and utilization of economic value. Based on case-studies from Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia, the authors demonstrate that micro-scale entrepreneurship is intertwined with prevailing conceptions, moralities and habituations in the entrepreneurs' social milieu. More specifically, the volume argues that meaning-making is integral to economic opportunity; that economic actors' market agency is shaped by cultural experiences; that entrepreneurs' prototypical "individualism" is socially contingent; and that cultural meanings channel economic value among economic and social domains. Addressing core questions about "embedding", the authors suggest theoretical convergences between economic anthropology and economic sociology"--
- Series Statement
- Social sciences in Asia ; volume 36
- Uniform Title
- Social sciences in Asia ; v. 36.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-320) and indexes.
- Contents
- Introduction : cultural embedding / Eldar Bråten -- Ethnic experience and global horizons : batik entrepreneurs on a tourist beach in Malaysia / Ingrid Rudie -- Young professionals in urban Java : youth cultures and the imaginary forms of the 'new economy' / Lars Gjelstad -- Gender and moralities of work on Jimbaran Bay, South Bali / Anette Fagertun -- Approaching entrepreneurship : female ambivalence towards expectations of modernity in Malaysia / Solgunn F. Olsen -- The superior Thai-western relationship : a culturally negotiated re-embedding practice / Kristianne Ervik -- Muslim healers in a Hindu context : a Hadrami Arab healing group on Bali / Frode F. Jacobsen -- Courage and trust : from penniless transmigrant to affluent smallholder (and back) in Indonesian Borneo / Olaf H. Smedal -- Struggle for progress : street youth entrepreneurship in Yogyakarta, Indonesia / Ingvild Solvang -- Malaysian Indian enterprises, the means to other business / Nils Hidle -- Building a moral economy : the historical success of Hadrami Sada in Singapore / Leif Manger -- Embedded micro-businesses : trust, incorporation and scaling in Javanese 'family firms' / Eldar Bråten -- Cash, culture and social change : why don't Chewong become entrepreneurs? / Signe Howell and Anja Lillegraven.
- ISBN
- 9789004250284 (pbk.)
- 900425028X (pbk.)
- 9789004255296 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2013018463
- 99955686570
- OCLC
- ocn843037421
- 843037421
- SCSB-5714346
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries