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1 online resource |
| Series |
Social sciences in Asia ; v. 36 |
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Social sciences in Asia ; v. 36.
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| Contents |
Introduction : cultural embedding / Eldar Bråten -- Ethnic experience and global horizons : batik entrepreneurs on a tourist beach in Malaysia / Ingrid Rudie -- Young professionals in urban Java : youth cultures and the imaginary forms of the 'new economy' / Lars Gjelstad -- Gender and moralities of work on Jimbaran Bay, South Bali / Anette Fagertun -- Approaching entrepreneurship : female ambivalence towards expectations of modernity in Malaysia / Solgunn F. Olsen -- The superior Thai-western relationship : a culturally negotiated re-embedding practice / Kristianne Ervik -- Muslim healers in a Hindu context : a Hadrami Arab healing group on Bali / Frode F. Jacobsen -- Courage and trust : from penniless transmigrant to affluent smallholder (and back) in Indonesian Borneo / Olaf H. Smedal -- Struggle for progress : street youth entrepreneurship in Yogyakarta, Indonesia / Ingvild Solvang -- Malaysian Indian enterprises, the means to other business / Nils Hidle -- Building a moral economy : the historical success of Hadrami Sada in Singapore / Leif Manger -- Embedded micro-businesses : trust, incorporation and scaling in Javanese 'family firms' / Eldar Bråten -- Cash, culture and social change : why don't Chewong become entrepreneurs? / Signe Howell and Anja Lillegraven |
| 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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Small business -- Social aspects -- Southeast Asia -- Case studies
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Entrepreneurship -- Social aspects -- Southeast Asia -- Case studies
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Economic anthropology -- Southeast Asia -- Case studies
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
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Commerce -- Social aspects
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Economic anthropology
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Entrepreneurship -- Social aspects
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Small business -- Social aspects
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| SUBJECT |
Southeast Asia -- Commerce -- Social aspects
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| Subject |
Southeast Asia
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bråten, Eldar, editor
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Rudie, Ingrid.
Ethnic experience and global horizons
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| LC no. |
2013018463 |
| ISBN |
9789004255296 |
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900425529X |
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