Personal and global economies

Male carpet manufacturers as entrepreneurs in the weaving neighborhoods of Konya, Turkey

Bibliographic Data

ID2279007
AuthorsDamla Isik (Western Connecticut State University, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume37
Issue1
Pages53-68
Publication date2010-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Ethnologist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1548-1425.2010.01241.x
OpenAlexW2107061140
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited58

Situating the Turkish carpet-weaving industry within the historical and political context of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), this study concentrates on male carpet manufacturers in Konya, Turkey. It explores how their divergent and at times awkward articulations of successful entrepreneurship affect and are affected by local labor conditions and relationships. The efforts of carpet manufacturers to achieve entrepreneurial flexibility have both liberating and constraining effects, demonstrating that the meanings and practices some researchers ascribe to the market economy and flexibility cannot be understood if disengaged from the particulars of culture

Affect (linguistics · Archaeology · Business · Context (archaeology · Economic geography · Economics · Economy · Entrepreneurship · Flexibility (engineering · Geography · Management · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Turkish · Turkish economy · Weaving · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Engineering · Law · Marketing · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Turkey's Politics and Society