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

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

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"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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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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Table of 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.

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