This book provides an original analysis of the economic success of Overseas Chinese merchants in Southeast Asia: The ….g. contract enforcement, that are essential to merchants’ success. The author’s theory - and various extensions, with emphasis on … dominate merchant roles. The study of the Chinese merchants is of important and general significance for many reasons, as …

of Chinese merchants in Southeast Asia. The paper presents an economic theory of Chinese middleman success. Central to … for middleman entrepreneurship. Chinese merchants embedded in the EHMG were able to economize on transaction costs, and …

Introduction : cultural embedding / Eldar Bråten -- Ethnic experience and global horizons : batik entrepreneurs on a … entrepreneurs? / Signe Howell and Anja Lillegraven … with prevailing conceptions, moralities and habituations in the entrepreneurs' social milieu. More specifically, the volume …

with prevailing conceptions, moralities and habituations in the entrepreneurs' social milieu. More specifically, the volume … experiences; that entrepreneurs' prototypical "individualism" is socially contingent; and that cultural meanings channel economic …

the labour market. It discusses the challenges faced in business creation by these potential entrepreneurs, as well as the … well as the report series “The Missing Entrepreneurs”. …