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Small Business, Big Society

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Authors:
  1. Rupert Hodder

    1. School of Economics and Management, Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen , Shenzhen, China

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  • This book sets out a fresh and original understanding of the social importance of small businesses and of development and growth

  • Provides a challenging and stimulating debate on the problems facing developed as well as developing societies

  • Provides detail on behavior in small businesses in China and the Philippines

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 1-14

  3. Creating Society

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. Emotion, Organization, and Society

      • Rupert Hodder
      Pages 17-29

    3. Informality

      • Rupert Hodder
      Pages 31-48

    4. Puritanism

      • Rupert Hodder
      Pages 49-68

    5. Emotional States

      • Rupert Hodder
      Pages 69-81

    6. Firm, Market, and Organization

      • Rupert Hodder
      Pages 83-98

    7. Big Societies: China and the Philippines

      • Rupert Hodder
      Pages 99-114

  4. Working Relationships

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-115
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    2. Happenstance

      • Rupert Hodder
      Pages 117-133

    3. Looking for Solace

      • Rupert Hodder
      Pages 135-151

    4. Being Direct

      • Rupert Hodder
      Pages 153-169

    5. Opportunities and Obstacles

      • Rupert Hodder
      Pages 171-184

    6. Conclusions

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      Pages 185-192

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 193-211
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About this book

This book considers how small businesses stir up changes in social relationships and what these changes mean for wider society. From this emerges a challenging and provocative discussion on the problems facing both the developing and developed worlds. Development, it argues, is written into social relationships and growth follows attempts to avoid the market’s degenerative effects. What this discussion means for development practice, and for thought in the social sciences more generally, is also considered. If there is a watchword for development practice, then it is acceptance – acceptance of more social, less prescriptive, and far more experimental modes of working. As for the implications of these ideas for social science, these may be described well enough as an economy of ontology.

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Economics and Management, Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen , Shenzhen, China

    Rupert Hodder

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Small Business, Big Society

  • Authors: Rupert Hodder

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8875-9

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-8874-2Published: 24 May 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4263-9Published: 29 December 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-8875-9Published: 11 May 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 211

  • Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Small Business, Organization, Development and Social Change

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