Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Leiden : Koninklijke Brill nV, 2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bråten, Eldar
• Rudie, Ingrid.

Description

x, 328 pages; 25 cm.

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"--

Series Statement

Social sciences in Asia ; volume 36

Uniform Title

Social sciences in Asia ; v. 36.

Subjects

• Entrepreneurship > Social aspects > Southeast Asia > Case studies
• Small business > Social aspects > Southeast Asia > Case studies
• Economic anthropology > Southeast Asia > Case studies
• Southeast Asia > Commerce > Social aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-320) and indexes.

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.

ISBN

• 9789004250284 (pbk.)
• 900425028X (pbk.)
• 9789004255296 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2013018463
• 99955686570

OCLC

• ocn843037421
• 843037421
• SCSB-5714346

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries