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 habituatio...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
Koninklijke Brill nV,
2013.
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Colección: | Social sciences in Asia ;
v. 36. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.