ID - 30746790 TI - Embedded entrepreneurship AU - BraĚŠten, Eldar AU - Rudie, Ingrid PY - 2013 VL - v. 36 SN - 15672794 SN - 900425529X 9789004255296 900425028X 1299736041 9789004250284 PB - Leiden Koninklijke Brill nV DB - UniCat KW - Small business KW - Entrepreneurship KW - Economic anthropology KW - Social aspects KW - Southeast Asia KW - Commerce KW - Social aspects. KW - Businesses, Small KW - Medium-sized business KW - Micro-businesses KW - Microbusinesses KW - Microenterprises KW - Small and medium-sized business KW - Small and medium-sized enterprises KW - Small businesses KW - SMEs (Small business) KW - Entrepreneur KW - Intrapreneur KW - Commerce, Primitive KW - Economics, Primitive KW - Asia, Southeast KW - Asia, Southeastern KW - South East Asia KW - Southeastern Asia KW - Business KW - Business enterprises KW - Industries KW - Capitalism KW - Business incubators KW - Economics KW - Ethnology KW - Size KW - E-books UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30746790 AB - "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"-- ER -