CALCULATIVE PRACTICES OF THE "RURAL": EMOTIONALITY, POWER AND MICRO-ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT - Softcover

JAYASINGHE, KELUM

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3639125908 ISBN 13: 9783639125900

Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2009

Synopsis

This study explores how semantic and moral rules of rural cultures and intrinsic power relations in rural politics constrain the institutionalisation of entrepreneurial ethos and rational calculations in rural economies. It addresses three interrelated research questions: (1)What ¿calculative practices¿ prevail in the rural economy, and how do such practices interplay with rural culture and politics? (2) What ¿psychological¿ meanings and ¿moral¿ factors influence entrepreneurial ¿rationality¿ in rural communities, and how do these influences come about?, (3) What ¿inequalities¿ and ¿power relations¿ constrain rural entrepreneurship, and how do these constraints operate?, and Based on ethnographic narratives and stories gathered from two villages in Sri Lanka, it has found that entrepreneurial development and underlying calculative practices in rural contexts are subject to particular psychological meanings, moral factors, inequalities and power relations.

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About the Author

Dr. Kelum Jayasinghe (Bcom, MBA, PhD) is a lecturer in accounting at the Essex Business School, University of Essex, UK. He has a desire to conduct ¿critical¿ and ¿interdisciplinary¿ research in accounting and international development.

Edition details

• Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3639125908
• ISBN 13: 9783639125900
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 244