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To Be an Entrepreneur : Social Enterprise and Disruptive Development in Bangladesh / Julia Qermezi Huang.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (324 p.) : 12 b&w halftones, 3 b&w line drawingsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501749551
  • 9781501748745
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.48/2095492 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Note on Style -- Prologue: Digital First Responders -- Introduction. DISRUPTIVE DEVELOPMENT IN BANGLADESH -- Part I. DISRUPTING ETHICAL MODELS -- Part II. UNSETTLING ENTREPRENEURSHIP -- Part III. RECONFIGURING CLASS RELATIONS -- Conclusion. THE TIME OF SOCIAL ENTERPRISE -- List of Key People -- Glossary of Non-English Words -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary: In To Be an Entrepreneur, Julia Qermezi Huang focuses on Bangladesh's iAgent social-enterprise model, the set of economic processes that animate the delivery of this model, and the implications for women's empowerment. The book offers new ethnographic approaches that reincorporate relational economics into the study of social enterprise. It details the tactics, dilemmas, compromises, aspirations, and unexpected possibilities that digital social enterprise opens up for women entrepreneurs, and reveals the implications of policy models promoting women's empowerment: the failure of focusing on individual autonomy and independence.While describing the historical and incomplete transition of Bangladesh's development models from their roots in a patronage-based moral economy to a market-based social-enterprise arrangement, Huang concludes that market-driven interventions fail to grasp the sociopolitical and cultural contexts in which poverty and gender inequality are embedded and sustained.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Note on Style -- Prologue: Digital First Responders -- Introduction. DISRUPTIVE DEVELOPMENT IN BANGLADESH -- Part I. DISRUPTING ETHICAL MODELS -- Part II. UNSETTLING ENTREPRENEURSHIP -- Part III. RECONFIGURING CLASS RELATIONS -- Conclusion. THE TIME OF SOCIAL ENTERPRISE -- List of Key People -- Glossary of Non-English Words -- Notes -- References -- Index

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In To Be an Entrepreneur, Julia Qermezi Huang focuses on Bangladesh's iAgent social-enterprise model, the set of economic processes that animate the delivery of this model, and the implications for women's empowerment. The book offers new ethnographic approaches that reincorporate relational economics into the study of social enterprise. It details the tactics, dilemmas, compromises, aspirations, and unexpected possibilities that digital social enterprise opens up for women entrepreneurs, and reveals the implications of policy models promoting women's empowerment: the failure of focusing on individual autonomy and independence.While describing the historical and incomplete transition of Bangladesh's development models from their roots in a patronage-based moral economy to a market-based social-enterprise arrangement, Huang concludes that market-driven interventions fail to grasp the sociopolitical and cultural contexts in which poverty and gender inequality are embedded and sustained.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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