Embedded entrepreneurship market, culture, and micro-business in insular Southeast Asia / edited by Eldar Bråten.
| Other author | Bråten, Eldar. |
| Other author | Rudie, Ingrid. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Leiden : Koninklijke Brill nV, 2013. |
| Description | x, 328 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Social sciences in Asia ; volume 36 |
| 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. |
| Abstract | "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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-320) and indexes. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2013018463 |
| ISBN | 9789004250284 (pbk.) |
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