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Embedded entrepreneurship market, culture, and micro-business in insular Southeast Asia /

"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...

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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Bråten, Eldar, Rudie, Ingrid
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden : Koninklijke Brill nV, 2013.
Series:Social sciences in Asia, v. 36
Subjects:
Small business > Social aspects > Southeast Asia > Case studies.
Entrepreneurship > Social aspects > Southeast Asia > Case studies.
Economic anthropology > Southeast Asia > Case studies.
Southeast Asia > Commerce > Social aspects.
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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"--
Physical Description:x, 328 p.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISSN:1567-2794 ;

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