Embedded Entrepreneurship: Market, Culture, and Micro-Business in Insular Southeast Asia

By: Eldar Bråten

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;...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 900425028X
• ISBN13: 9789004250284
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"