TY  - BOOK
AU  - Br�aten,Eldar
AU  - Rudie,Ingrid
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Embedded entrepreneurship: market, culture, and micro-business in insular Southeast Asia 
AV  - HD2346.S645 E43 2013eb
U1  - 338.6/420959 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Leiden
PB  - Koninklijke Brill nV
KW  - Small business
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Southeast Asia
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Entrepreneurship
KW  - Economic anthropology
KW  - Commerce
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Introduction : cultural embedding / Eldar Br�aten -- 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 Br�aten -- Cash, culture and social change : why don't Chewong become entrepreneurs? / Signe Howell and Anja Lillegraven; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
N2  - "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"--
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/welingkar/Doc?id=10734230
ER  -