ISBN:
9781805390053
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (232 p)
Edition:
1st edition
Series Statement:
Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy 11
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Keywords:
Political and Economic Anthropology, Sociology
Abstract:
Presenting a new interpretation of entrepreneurial behaviour, this book focuses on how entrepreneurs consider the future, looking at their social practices, language and rituals through which they neutralize or smoothen future unknowns. The study theorizes entrepreneurial behaviour as 'future-work': the social practices, language and rituals through which entrepreneurs neutralize or smoothen future unknowns. The study is grounded in ethnographic case material from global frontiers: second-hand car dealers in West Africa; exporters of fresh fish from Lake Victoria, East Africa; farmed fish entrepreneurs in Greece; and investment bankers in Financial America. It targets students and scholars from the social sciences and economics, and it has theoretical and practical implications
Description / Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations -- Prologue -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Problem of the Future in Studying Entrepreneurship -- Chapter 1. Time and Entrepreneurship in Social Theory: Barth, Schumpeter and Keynes -- Chapter 2. The Social Construction of Individualism: Fish Entrepreneurs on Lake Victoria, Uganda -- Chapter 3. Profitmaking and Dreaming of Fortunes: Second-hand Car Dealers in Cotonou, Benin -- Chapter 4. Telling Stories with Numbers: The Social Life of Investment Bankers -- Chapter 5. The Relevance of the Policy Context: Aquaculture Entrepreneurs in Greece -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- References -- Index
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Zielgruppe: Professional and scholarly
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