| Embedded Entrepreneurship: Market, Culture, and Micro-Business in Insular Southeast Asia Contributor(s): Bråten |
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ISBN: 900425028X ISBN-13: 9789004250284 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $135.85 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Industries - General - Business & Economics | Management - General - Social Science | Popular Culture |
| Dewey: 338.642 |
| LCCN: 2013018463 |
| Series: Social Sciences in Asia |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" (0.66 lbs) 338 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Embedded Entrepreneurship 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. Contributors include: Signe Howell, Ingrid Rudie, Leif Manger, Olaf H. Smedal, Frode F. Jacobsen, Kristianne Ervik, Anette Fagertun, Lars Gjelstad, Nils Hidle, Anja Lillegraven, Solgunn Olsen and Ingvild Solvang. |