Some reflections on 'entrepreneur-ship' and the Chinese community of a west Malaysian market town
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2142371 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D Nonini (0000-0001-8298-3052, New School, corresponding author), Donald M Nonini |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 350-367 |
| Publication date | 1987-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnos (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0014-1844 • E-ISSN: 1469-588X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00141844.1987.9981351 |
| OpenAlex | W2001873405 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 13 |
Ethnographic and historical data on Chinese in a West Malaysian market town are employed in a critique of conventional views of 'entrepreneurship'. On the basis of an analysis of operation of family firms and relations between employers and employees in the town's truck transport industry, and in view of the contemporary political economy of Malaysia, it is argued that the reigning concept of 'entrepreneurship' should be deconstructed into its constituent elements - risk-taking, innovation, property ownership, etc. It is concluded that past generalizations about Chinese 'entrepreneurship' are anachronous, given the present dominance of oligopoly capitalism in Malaysia and elsewhere in Southeast Asia. Notes This paper was originally prepared for the conference "Chinese Entrepreneurship at Home and Abroad, 1900-1982," held at Cornell University, October 1-2, 1982. I am grateful to its participants for their comments and criticisms. In 1978-80 I did fieldwork in a West Malaysian market town, which I here call Pekan Tebu. My research was supported by National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Grant #BNS-77-25319, and by a National Institute of General Medical Sciences Traineeship in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University. Both sources are gratefully acknowledged
Capitalism · Dominance (genetics · Economics · Economy · Entrepreneurship · Ethnography · Ethnology · Market economy · Oligopoly · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Southeast asia · Asian Studies and History · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Socioeconomic Development in Asia
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 1989 - 1999 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |