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Author Huang, Julia, author

Title To be an entrepreneur : social enterprise and disruptive development in Bangladesh / Julia Qermezi Huang
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020
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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 298 pages)
Contents Prologue : digital first responders -- Introduction : disruptive development in Bangladesh -- Women's work : the arena of disruption -- Digital technology : the problems of (and solutions to) connectivity -- The making and unmaking of entrepreneurs -- A diversified basket of services -- Middle-class projects and the development moral economy -- The ambiguous figures of social enterprise -- Conclusion : the time of social enterprise
Summary "Based on fifteen months of ethnographic research in northwestern Bangladesh, this book examines social entrepreneurship through the set of economic processes that animate the delivery of social-enterprise models and enmesh the social identities of poor women entrepreneurs, front-line enterprise workers, and the development elite"-- Provided by publisher
Analysis social enterprise, Bangladesh, financial inclusion, women's empowerment, global development
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 20, 2020)
Subject Women in development -- Bangladesh
Businesswomen -- Bangladesh
Social entrepreneurship -- Bangladesh
Poor women -- Bangladesh
Ethnology -- Bangladesh.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Entrepreneurship.
Businesswomen.
Ethnology.
Poor women.
Social entrepreneurship.
Women in development.
Bangladesh.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019030758
ISBN 9781501748738
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9781501748745
1501748734