New Markets and Good Deeds

On Altruism and Exemplary Entrepreneurship

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2581971
AutoresKevin Avruch (autor correspondente)
Ano1982
Volume55
Fascículo4
Páginas211
Data de publicação1982-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAnthropological Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0003-5491 • E-ISSN: 1534-1518
EditoraJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/3317150
OpenAlexW2162146267
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas8

Most anthropological treatments of entrepreneurship view the entrepreneur as an innovator concerned with maximizing profits. In the work of Fredrik Barth, the profit-seeking aspect has been generalized in a model of social organization based on transactional relations, while the innovation aspect has been promoted to the status of explaining social change. Change has been perceived as a function of (successful) entrepreneurship. This paper explores a situation where individuals consciously become entrepreneurs as a function of their expressed commitment to social change. They link their entrepreneurstip explicitly to the goal of inducing in a particular society-Israel-social change of a special sort. These individuals comprise a segment of recent American immigrants to Israel

Altruism (biology · Business · Economics · Entrepreneurship · Function (biology · Innovator · Neoclassical economics · Political science · Positive economics · Profit (economics · Public relations · Social entrepreneurship · Social science · Sociology · Transactional leadership · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Jewish Identity and Society · Law · Marketing · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Psychology · Social Psychology