Embedded entrepreneurship: market, culture, and micro-business in insular Southeast Asia

"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 habituatio...

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Main Authors: Bråten, Eldar (Author), Rudie, Ingrid (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden [u.a.] Brill 2013
Series:Social sciences in Asia 36
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
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"..
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-320) and indexes
Physical Description:X, 328 S. 25 cm
ISBN:9789004250284