To Be an Entrepreneur : : Social Enterprise and Disruptive Development in Bangladesh / / Julia Qermezi Huang.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Huang, Julia Qermezi,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2020]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (324 p.) :; 12 b&w halftones, 3 b&w line drawings
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Figures and Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; Note on Style --; Prologue: Digital First Responders --; Introduction. DISRUPTIVE DEVELOPMENT IN BANGLADESH --; Part I. DISRUPTING ETHICAL MODELS --; Part II. UNSETTLING ENTREPRENEURSHIP --; Part III. RECONFIGURING CLASS RELATIONS --; Conclusion. THE TIME OF SOCIAL ENTERPRISE --; List of Key People --; Glossary of Non-English Words --; Notes --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501748745; 9783110690460; 9783110704792; 9783110704716; 9783110704518; 9783110704624
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501748745
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Julia Qermezi Huang.

In To Be an Entrepreneur, Julia Qermezi Huang focuses on Bangladesh's iAgent social-enterprise model, the set of economic processes that animate the delivery of this model, and the implications for women's empowerment. The book offers new ethnographic approaches that reincorporate relational economics into the study of social enterprise. It details the tactics, dilemmas, compromises, aspirations, and unexpected possibilities that digital social enterprise opens up for women entrepreneurs, and reveals the implications of policy models promoting women's empowerment: the failure of focusing on individual autonomy and independence.While describing the historical and incomplete transition of Bangladesh's development models from their roots in a patronage-based moral economy to a market-based social-enterprise arrangement, Huang concludes that market-driven interventions fail to grasp the sociopolitical and cultural contexts in which poverty and gender inequality are embedded and sustained.