Embedded entrepreneurship : market, culture, and micro-business in insular Southeast Asia / / edited by Eldar Bråten.
"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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| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Social sciences in Asia,
v. 36 Social Sciences in Asia 36. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (338 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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| Other title: | Ethnic experience and global horizons. |
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| 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"-- |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 900425529X |
| ISSN: | 1567-2794 ; |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | edited by Eldar Bråten. |