Embedded entrepreneurship
Subtitle: market, culture, and micro-business in insular Southeast Asia
By: edited by Eldar Bråten
Contributors: Rudie, Ingrid
Series: Social sciences in Asia -- volume 36
Publisher: Koninklijke Brill nV
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9789004250284; 9789004255296
Subjects: Small business; Case studies; Entrepreneurship; Economic anthropology; Commerce; Social aspects
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-320) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : cultural embedding / Eldar Bråten; title: Ethnic experience and global horizons : batik entrepreneurs on a tourist beach in Malaysia / Ingrid Rudie; title: Young professionals in urban Java : youth cultures and the imaginary forms of the 'new economy' / Lars Gjelstad; title: Gender and moralities of work on Jimbaran Bay, South Bali / Anette Fagertun; title: Approaching entrepreneurship : female ambivalence towards expectations of modernity in Malaysia / Solgunn F. Olsen; title: The superior Thai-western relationship : a culturally negotiated re-embedding practice / Kristianne Ervik; title: Muslim healers in a Hindu context : a Hadrami Arab healing group on Bali / Frode F. Jacobsen; title: Courage and trust : from penniless transmigrant to affluent smallholder (and back) in Indonesian Borneo / Olaf H. Smedal; title: Struggle for progress : street youth entrepreneurship in Yogyakarta, Indonesia / Ingvild Solvang; title: Malaysian Indian enterprises, the means to other business / Nils Hidle; title: Building a moral economy : the historical success of Hadrami Sada in Singapore / Leif Manger; title: Embedded micro-businesses : trust, incorporation and scaling in Javanese 'family firms' / Eldar Bråten; title: Cash, culture and social change : why don't Chewong become entrepreneurs? / Signe Howell and Anja Lillegraven.