The Anthropology Of Entrepreneurship

Author : Richard Pfeilstetter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000474855

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The Anthropology of Entrepreneurship by Richard Pfeilstetter Pdf

The Anthropology of Entrepreneurship provides a comprehensive overview of the unique contribution from anthropology to the field of entrepreneurship studies. Insights from anthropology illuminate the wider socio-cultural implications of entrepreneurialism, a moral order and social practice that is profoundly shaping contemporary society. Revisiting classic works in anthropology from a new angle, this book provides an exciting introduction to diverse conceptual framings of economic agency. The author also examines a wide range of 21st century ethnographies from the Global South, alongside his own research from across Europe. Readers meet ordinary people struggling with new social landscapes, including neoliberal urbanism, informal credit, heritage marketing, social enterprising, gift competition, and silicon utopias. With sensitivity to different theoretical, temporal, and ethnographic perspectives, the author presents a thorough cultural history of the entrepreneur―this ubiquitous, yet ambivalent contemporary character. This important volume will be of interest to scholars and students of anthropology, business studies and other related social sciences.

Author : Rita M Denny,Patricia L Sunderland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 838 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315427843

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Handbook of Anthropology in Business by Rita M Denny,Patricia L Sunderland Pdf

In recent years announcements of the birth of business anthropology have ricocheted around the globe. The first major reference work on this field, the Handbook of Anthropology in Business is a creative production of more than 60 international scholar-practitioners working in universities and corporate settings from high tech to health care. Offering broad coverage of theory and practice around the world, chapters demonstrate the vibrant tensions and innovation that emerge in intersections between anthropology and business and between corporate worlds and the lives of individual scholar-practitioners. Breaking from standard attempts to define scholarly fields as products of fixed consensus, the authors reveal an evolving mosaic of engagement and innovation, offering a paradigm for understanding anthropology in business for years to come.

Author : Raza Mir,Anne-Laure Fayard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000079210

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The Routledge Companion to Anthropology and Business by Raza Mir,Anne-Laure Fayard Pdf

Interest in anthropology and ethnography has been an ongoing feature of organizational research and pedagogy; this book provides a key reference text that pulls together the different ways in which anthropology infuses the study of organizations, both epistemologically and methodologically. The volume hosts key scholars and experts within the fields of Organizational Anthropology, Organizational Ethnography, Organizational Studies and Qualitative Research. The book provides a combination of methodological guidelines, exemplars and epistemological reflection. It includes methodological viewpoints, ethnographic journeys within organizations as well as beyond organizations, and individual reflections on challenges faced by organizational ethnographers. This book is aimed at PhD, master and advanced undergraduate students and researchers across disciplines, especially those who are engaged with general management, organizational behaviour, strategy and anthropological/ethnographic issues.

Author : Gillian Tett
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781982140984

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Anthro-Vision by Gillian Tett Pdf

While today’s business world is dominated by technology and data analysis, award-winning financial journalist and anthropology PhD Gillian Tett advocates thinking like an anthropologist to better understand consumer behavior, markets, and organizations to address some of society’s most urgent challenges. Amid severe digital disruption, economic upheaval, and political flux, how can we make sense of the world? Leaders today typically look for answers in economic models, Big Data, or artificial intelligence platforms. Gillian Tett points to anthropology—the study of human culture. Anthropologists learn to get inside the minds of other people, helping them not only to understand other cultures but also to appraise their own environment with fresh perspective as an insider-outsider, gaining lateral vision. Today, anthropologists are more likely to study Amazon warehouses than remote Amazon tribes; they have done research into institutions and companies such as General Motors, Nestlé, Intel, and more, shedding light on practical questions such as how internet users really define themselves; why corporate projects fail; why bank traders miscalculate losses; how companies sell products like pet food and pensions; why pandemic policies succeed (or not). Anthropology makes the familiar seem unfamiliar and vice versa, giving us badly needed three-dimensional perspective in a world where many executives are plagued by tunnel vision, especially in fields like finance and technology. “Fascinating and surprising” (Fareed Zararia, CNN), Anthro-Vision offers a revolutionary new way for understanding the behavior of organizations, individuals, and markets in today’s ever-evolving world.

Author : Sidney M. Greenfield,Arnold Strickon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038078882

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Entrepreneurship and Social Change by Sidney M. Greenfield,Arnold Strickon Pdf

Author : Monica DeHart
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804769334

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Ethnic Entrepreneurs by Monica DeHart Pdf

Ethnic Entrepreneurs examines how diverse groups, including indigenous communities in Latin America and Latino communities in the United States, have become visible and valuable as agents of economic development in Latin America in recent years.

Author : Elena Sischarenco
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781527532915

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Encountering Entrepreneurs by Elena Sischarenco Pdf

This book shows the daily life of businessmen in a particularly productive area of Northern Italy, Lombardy. It provides insights into their business, entrepreneurialism, and of them as individuals, allowing the reader to immerse themselves in these businessmen’s world, full of plans, ideas, hopes, and failures in the struggle to survive during a time of economic recession. The analysis reveals the importance of trust and networks as a way of opposing the vulnerability and risk involved in entrepreneurialism. As such, the book has an appeal that extends beyond anthropology. It will be of interest not only to students of sociology, Italian studies, and business studies, but also to anyone with an interest in seeing business through different lenses. Through its close ethnographic accounts of businessmen, it provides a different approach to capitalism and a reflection on human nature.

Author : Timothy de Waal Malefyt,Robert J Morais
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351768979

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Ethics in the Anthropology of Business by Timothy de Waal Malefyt,Robert J Morais Pdf

Ethics in business is a major topic both in the social sciences and in business itself. Anthropologists, long attendant to the intersection of ethics and practice, are particularly well suited to offer vital insights on the subject. This timely collection considers a range of ethical issues in business through the examination of anthropologically informed theory and case examples. The meaning of ethical values, practices, and education are explored, as well as practical ways of implementing them, while the specific ethical challenges of industries such as advertising, market research, and design are considered. Contributions from anthropologists in business and academia promise a broad range of perspectives and add to the growing discussion on the ways anthropologists study, work, teach, and engage in a variety of industry settings. Engagingly written, Ethics in the Anthropology of Business will be of interest to a wide variety of audiences, including practicing anthropologists, current and future business leaders, and scholars and students from a range of social sciences.

Author : Ann T. Jordan
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478609155

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Business Anthropology by Ann T. Jordan Pdf

Viewed as a breakthrough in applied anthropology, Business Anthropology was the first concise work to juxtapose, compare, and integrate anthropological methods and theories with those of contemporary business practices and theories. In this latest edition, Jordan retains enduring, illustrative examples and adds fresh insights to familiarize readers with anthropological techniques and show their ever-growing utility in a variety of organizational and consumer settings. Business Anthropology explains how anthropologists distinctive training and skills equip them to address issues ranging from work processes, diversity, and globalization to product design and consumer behavior, in both for-profit and nonprofit organizations. Anthropologists use a holistic approach to gather and analyze data. They get to know people both inside and outside the organization, understand diverse perspectives from an objective viewpoint, gain in-depth knowledge about local wants and needs, and see old realities in new ways.

Author : Sidney M. Greenfield,Arnold J. Strickon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Economic anthropology
ISBN : OCLC:610361205

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Entrepreneurship and Social Change by Sidney M. Greenfield,Arnold J. Strickon Pdf

Author : Timothy de Waal Malefyt,Robert J Morais
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351768962

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Ethics in the Anthropology of Business by Timothy de Waal Malefyt,Robert J Morais Pdf

Ethics in business is a major topic both in the social sciences and in business itself. Anthropologists, long attendant to the intersection of ethics and practice, are particularly well suited to offer vital insights on the subject. This timely collection considers a range of ethical issues in business through the examination of anthropologically informed theory and case examples. The meaning of ethical values, practices, and education are explored, as well as practical ways of implementing them, while the specific ethical challenges of industries such as advertising, market research, and design are considered. Contributions from anthropologists in business and academia promise a broad range of perspectives and add to the growing discussion on the ways anthropologists study, work, teach, and engage in a variety of industry settings. Engagingly written, Ethics in the Anthropology of Business will be of interest to a wide variety of audiences, including practicing anthropologists, current and future business leaders, and scholars and students from a range of social sciences.

Author : Bruce Johnstone
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781782809463

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Ethnographic Methods in Entrepreneurship Research by Bruce Johnstone Pdf

This book is a resource and guide for academics and graduate students conducting research in Entrepreneurship using ethnographic methods. It is a guide to how entrepreneurs can be studied using the ethnographic techniques of cultural anthropologists.

Author : Carla Freeman
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822376002

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Entrepreneurial Selves by Carla Freeman Pdf

Entrepreneurial Selves is an ethnography of neoliberalism. Bridging political economy and affect studies, Carla Freeman turns a spotlight on the entrepreneur, a figure saluted across the globe as the very embodiment of neoliberalism. Steeped in more than a decade of ethnography on the emergent entrepreneurial middle class of Barbados, she finds dramatic reworkings of selfhood, intimacy, labor, and life amid the rumbling effects of political-economic restructuring. She shows us that the déjà vu of neoliberalism, the global hailing of entrepreneurial flexibility and its concomitant project of self-making, can only be grasped through the thickness of cultural specificity where its costs and pleasures are unevenly felt. Freeman theorizes postcolonial neoliberalism by reimagining the Caribbean cultural model of 'reputation-respectability.' This remarkable book will allow readers to see how the material social practices formerly associated with resistance to capitalism (reputation) are being mobilized in ways that sustain neoliberal precepts and, in so doing, re-map class, race, and gender through a new emotional economy.

Author : Ute Röschenthaler,Dorothea Schulz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317529620

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Cultural Entrepreneurship in Africa by Ute Röschenthaler,Dorothea Schulz Pdf

This book seeks to widen perspectives on entrepreneurship by drawing attention to the diverse and partly new forms of entrepreneurial practice in Africa since the 1990s. Contrary to widespread assertions, figures of success have been regularly observed in Africa since pre-colonial times. The contributions account for these historical continuities in entrepreneurship, and identify the specifically new political and economic context within which individuals currently probe and invent novel forms of enterprise. Based on ethnographically contextualized life stories and case studies of female and male entrepreneurs, the volume offers a vivid and multi-perspectival account of their strategies, visions and ventures in domains as varied as religious proselytism, politics, tourism, media, music, prostitution, funeral organization, and education. African cultural entrepreneurs have a significant economic impact, attract the attention of large groups of people, serve as role models for many youths, and contribute to the formation of new popular cultures.

Author : Katrin Sontag
Publisher : Verlag Barbara Budrich
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783863883607

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Mobile Entrepreneurs by Katrin Sontag Pdf

Migration, mobility, and globalization are transforming ways of working and living. Business activities, relationships and a sense of belonging are often not tied to any one place. This book explores biographies of highly mobile startup founders who often run startups that have been called „born global“. It describes how they move, how they orientate and perceive themselves, and how migration and mobility play a role beyond the physical act of ‘moving’. Presenting current ethnographic research, the book critically discusses approaches in migration and mobility studies and the research field of the „migration of the highly skilled“.