Embedded entrepreneurship [electronic resource] : market, culture, and micro-business in insular Southeast Asia / edited by Eldar Bråten.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bråten, Eldar.

Rudie, Ingrid.

Series:

Social Sciences in Asia 36.

Social sciences in Asia, 1567-2794 ; v. 36

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Small business--Social aspects--Southeast Asia--Case studies.

Small business.

Entrepreneurship--Social aspects--Southeast Asia--Case studies.

Entrepreneurship.

Economic anthropology--Southeast Asia--Case studies.

Economic anthropology.

Southeast Asia--Commerce--Social aspects.

Southeast Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (338 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Koninklijke Brill nV, 2013.

Language Note:

English

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.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Related Work:

Rudie, Ingrid. Ethnic experience and global horizons.

ISBN:

90-04-25529-X

OCLC:

853364889

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004255296 DOI