Indigenous Entrepreneurship in Southeast Asia

This book provides an in-depth exploration of indigenous entrepreneurship and its challenges while addressing ways to make businesses more inclusive and sustainable in the long term. Offering a balanced mix of critical perspectives, theoretical insights and practical implications, provided by both academics and practitioners, it examines how indigenous entrepreneurship practices in Southeast Asia challenge existing theories in business and management research. The chapters also explore the role of various stakeholders, such as the larger community and society, supply chain members, policy-makers, etc., in facilitating indigenous entrepreneurship. Highlighting the uniqueness and diversity of indigenous entrepreneurship in Southeast Asia, this book renders a comprehensive overview of contemporary indigenization topics, organized by Southeast Asian cultural and national contexts. Emiel L. Eijdenberg is an Associate Professor and the Singapore Director of the Centre for International Trade and Business in Asia (CITBA) at James Cook University, Singapore. Thirumaran K is an Associate Professor and the Academic Head of JCU Singapore Business School at James Cook University, Singapore. Pengji Wang is Associate Professor at James Cook University, Singapore. Caroline Wong is the Associate Dean of Learning and Teaching and an Associate Professor at James Cook University, Singapore.