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Entrepreneurship and Religion
This rich and detailed book makes a very timely contribution to extending our understanding of entrepreneurship in its social context. Using selected examples, the respected contributors show how the values developed in religious beliefs and practices shape entrepreneurship.
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This rich and detailed book makes a very timely contribution to extending our understanding of entrepreneurship in its social context. Using selected examples, the respected contributors show how the values developed in religious beliefs and practices shape entrepreneurship.
For too long the entrepreneur has been characterized as an isolated, economically driven individual, thus ignoring how enterprise and entrepreneurs are products of their society, their culture and their religion. This innovative book discusses both entrepreneurship and religion, as well as indicating how the synthesis of beliefs and practices combine in entrepreneurial endeavours. It provides a conceptually useful way of framing the individualistic entrepreneur in his or her social and cultural context, demonstrating how entrepreneurial agency operates within and through a variety of religious contexts.
Illustrated with original photographs, this captivating book will be warmly welcomed by students and researchers with interests in entrepreneurship, sociology, religion and cultural studies. Government policy-makers in immigration will also find this book an invaluable read.
For too long the entrepreneur has been characterized as an isolated, economically driven individual, thus ignoring how enterprise and entrepreneurs are products of their society, their culture and their religion. This innovative book discusses both entrepreneurship and religion, as well as indicating how the synthesis of beliefs and practices combine in entrepreneurial endeavours. It provides a conceptually useful way of framing the individualistic entrepreneur in his or her social and cultural context, demonstrating how entrepreneurial agency operates within and through a variety of religious contexts.
Illustrated with original photographs, this captivating book will be warmly welcomed by students and researchers with interests in entrepreneurship, sociology, religion and cultural studies. Government policy-makers in immigration will also find this book an invaluable read.
Critical Acclaim
‘. . . this rich collection illustrates the diversity in entrepreneurial ability among social groups. . . The book is never dull reading and will appeal to a certain kind of interdisciplinary general reader as well to more focused readers of entrepreneurship literature.’
– Vijaya Sherry Chand, The Journal of Entrepreneurship
‘I wish this book had been around when I tried to teach about entrepreneurship in its social context; life would have been much easier with these informed sources.’
– Alistair R. Anderson, Aberdeen Business School, UK
– Vijaya Sherry Chand, The Journal of Entrepreneurship
‘I wish this book had been around when I tried to teach about entrepreneurship in its social context; life would have been much easier with these informed sources.’
– Alistair R. Anderson, Aberdeen Business School, UK
Contributors
Contributors: K. Abu Asbeh, A.R. Anderson, R.B. Anderson, G. Baldacchino, J. Benitez-Galbraith, S. Chaudhry, D. Crick, L.-P. Dana, T.E. Dana, A. Fayolle, C.S. Galbraith, W.A. Ghoul, S. Heilbrunn, I. Light, R.L. Malach, S. Malach, H. Nekka, E. Pio, N. Robinson, C. Roessingh, K. Smits, C.H. Stiles, D. Tassiopoulos, C. Vignali, G. Vignali, M. Weinfeld, A. White
Contents
Contents:
Foreword
Alistair R. Anderson
Introduction: Religion as an Explanatory Variable for Entrepreneurship
Léo-Paul Dana
PART I: OLD VALUES
1. Religious Merchants?
Edwina Pio
2. Promethian Values in New Mexico
Léo-Paul Dana and Robert Brent Anderson
3. The Mizrahim: Anglicized Orientals with Transnational Networks and ‘Ethics Capital’
Léo-Paul Dana
PART II: CHRISTIAN COMMUNITIES
4. Greek Christian Orthodoxy and Entrepreneurship
Dimitri Tassiopoulos
5. Economics and Spirituality in the Entrepreneurial Development Strategy of the Franciscan California Missions: The Historical Case of San Diego
Craig S. Galbraith, Curt H. Stiles and Jacqueline Benitez-Galbraith
6. The Religious Ethic of the Protestant Ethnics
Ivan Light
7. The Effects of Methodism on Entrepreneurship
Anne White
8. The Hutterite Brethren: Old World Values and New Age Technologies
Robert L. Malach and Sandra Malach
9. Amish Entrepreneurship in the United States
Léo-Paul Dana
10. Mennonite Entrepreneurship in Belize
Carel Roessingh and Karen Smits
11. Collective Entrepreneurship in a Mennonite Community in Paraguay
Léo-Paul Dana and Teresa E. Dana
PART III: ISLAM
12. Islam and Entrepreneurship
Wafica Ali Ghoul
13. Xinjiang
Léo-Paul Dana
14. Muslim Entrepreneurs in France
Hadj Nekka and Alain Fayolle
PART IV: MINORITIES IN A HOST SOCIETY
15. On Entrepreneurship Among Druze
Sibylle Heilbrunn and Khaled Abu Asbeh
16. Home of Sephardi Middlemen
Léo-Paul Dana and Teresa E. Dana
17. Ashkenazi Middlemen in the Agricultural Sector in Europe
Léo-Paul Dana
18. The Jewish Sub-Economy of Montreal
Morton Weinfeld
19. A Case History of a Successful Hindu Entrepreneurship in the United Kingdom
Shiv Chaudhry and Dave Crick
PART V: COMPARATIVE STUDIES
20. A Critical Investigation of the Protestant Ethic on a Divided Island
Godfrey Baldacchino and Léo-Paul Dana
21. Italian Catholics of Lancashire and the Jewish Community of Yorkshire
Claudio Vignali, Neil Robinson and Gianpaolo Vignali
Index
Foreword
Alistair R. Anderson
Introduction: Religion as an Explanatory Variable for Entrepreneurship
Léo-Paul Dana
PART I: OLD VALUES
1. Religious Merchants?
Edwina Pio
2. Promethian Values in New Mexico
Léo-Paul Dana and Robert Brent Anderson
3. The Mizrahim: Anglicized Orientals with Transnational Networks and ‘Ethics Capital’
Léo-Paul Dana
PART II: CHRISTIAN COMMUNITIES
4. Greek Christian Orthodoxy and Entrepreneurship
Dimitri Tassiopoulos
5. Economics and Spirituality in the Entrepreneurial Development Strategy of the Franciscan California Missions: The Historical Case of San Diego
Craig S. Galbraith, Curt H. Stiles and Jacqueline Benitez-Galbraith
6. The Religious Ethic of the Protestant Ethnics
Ivan Light
7. The Effects of Methodism on Entrepreneurship
Anne White
8. The Hutterite Brethren: Old World Values and New Age Technologies
Robert L. Malach and Sandra Malach
9. Amish Entrepreneurship in the United States
Léo-Paul Dana
10. Mennonite Entrepreneurship in Belize
Carel Roessingh and Karen Smits
11. Collective Entrepreneurship in a Mennonite Community in Paraguay
Léo-Paul Dana and Teresa E. Dana
PART III: ISLAM
12. Islam and Entrepreneurship
Wafica Ali Ghoul
13. Xinjiang
Léo-Paul Dana
14. Muslim Entrepreneurs in France
Hadj Nekka and Alain Fayolle
PART IV: MINORITIES IN A HOST SOCIETY
15. On Entrepreneurship Among Druze
Sibylle Heilbrunn and Khaled Abu Asbeh
16. Home of Sephardi Middlemen
Léo-Paul Dana and Teresa E. Dana
17. Ashkenazi Middlemen in the Agricultural Sector in Europe
Léo-Paul Dana
18. The Jewish Sub-Economy of Montreal
Morton Weinfeld
19. A Case History of a Successful Hindu Entrepreneurship in the United Kingdom
Shiv Chaudhry and Dave Crick
PART V: COMPARATIVE STUDIES
20. A Critical Investigation of the Protestant Ethic on a Divided Island
Godfrey Baldacchino and Léo-Paul Dana
21. Italian Catholics of Lancashire and the Jewish Community of Yorkshire
Claudio Vignali, Neil Robinson and Gianpaolo Vignali
Index
