Small Business, Big Society
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. Dev
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Small Business, Big Society
Small Business, Big Society
Rupert Hodder
Small Business, Big Society
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Rupert Hodder School of Economics and Management Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen Shenzhen, Guangdong China
ISBN 978-981-10-8874-2 ISBN 978-981-10-8875-9 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8875-9
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Preface
A book about how social relationships come to form small businesses and what this means for societies and their development might be thought unusual on two counts. The first is its accent on relationships: meat and drink to the novelist; matters of occasional interest to the academic (especially the historian and the anthropologist); and for each of us the bread and butter of daily life; but not the means to uncover, comprehend, or explain the great shifts and movements across societies that development entails. The second is its emphasis on small businesses and their use as an entrée into the matter of development. After all, development is more generally understood to be about the growing maturity of government and administration, strengthening civil society, and more ambitious infrastructure and health programs, as well as about economic growth. It is about interventions by foreign governments and international organizations (such as the World Bank); the actions of large corporations and the extractive industries; the bargains struck through international trade agreements; investment in manufacturing for export; advances in agriculture and techno
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