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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Weitere Verfasser: Bråten, Eldar (HerausgeberIn), Rudie, Ingrid
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Leiden : Koninklijke Brill nV, 2013.
Schriftenreihe:Social sciences in Asia ; v. 36.
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Zusammenfassung:"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"--
Beschreibung:1 online resource
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789004255296
900425529X

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