@article{719675, author = {BrĂ¥ten, Eldar. and Rudie, Ingrid.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/719675}, title = {Embedded entrepreneurship: market, culture, and micro-business in insular Southeast Asia /}, publisher = {Koninklijke Brill nV,}, abstract = {"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"--}, recid = {719675}, pages = {x, 328 p.}, address = {Leiden :}, year = {2013}, }