Small Business, Big Society
by Rupert Hodder (Author)

About the Author
Rupert Hodder was born in Ibadan, Nigeria, and educated in England and Hong Kong. He has lived and worked in many parts of East and South East Asia, including China, Malaysia and the Philippines. He is currently a Reader at the University of Plymouth, UK., having previously held posts at the LSE and The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and visiting posts at La Salle Institute of Governance, Manila, and at the College of Law, Government and International Studies, Universiti Utara Malaysia. He is the author of numerous works that have appeared in Asian Journal of Social Science, Asian Studies Review, Government and Policy, Southeast Asia Research, The Pacific Review, The Far Eastern Economic Review and the Salisbury Review amongst other journals. He is also the author of Emotional Bureaucracy, Merchant Princes, Between Two Worlds, In China’s Image, and The West Pacific Rim.

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.

Table of contents
1 Introduction
    1.1 Questions and Answers
    1.2 Approach and Argument
Part I Creating Society
2 Emotion, Organization, and Society
    2.1 Introduction
    2.2 Relationships
    2.3 Emotion
    2.4 Emotion as Organization: A Model
    2.5 Conclusions: Emotion and Organizations
3 Informality
    3.1 Introduction
    3.2 Meanings
    3.3 Problems
        3.3.1 Refocusing Informality
    3.4 Patronage: Dimensions and Doubts
        3.4.1 Refocusing Patronage
    3.5 Conclusions
4 Puritanism
    4.1 Introduction
    4.2 Expressions
    4.3 Conclusions
5 Emotional States
    5.1 Introduction
    5.2 Explanations
    5.3 Emotional State?
    5.4 Conclusions: Mobility, Patronage, and Emotion
6 Firm, Market, and Organization
    6.1 Introduction
    6.2 Firms, Organization and Market
    6.3 Emotion, Pattern, and Illustration
    6.4 Conclusions
7 Big Societies: China and the Philippines
    7.1 Introduction
    7.2 Patterns of Government and Business
    7.3 Becoming Wealthy
    7.4 Conclusions
Part II Working Relationships
8 Happenstance
    8.1 Introduction
    8.2 Dumplings and Flowers
    8.3 Creating Neighbors
    8.4 Conclusions
9 Looking for Solace
    9.1 Introduction
    9.2 Resentments and Reconciliations
    9.3 Emotion as a Stimulus
    9.4 Conclusions
10 Being Direct
    10.1 Introduction
    10.2 ‘Distancing’ Family
    10.3 Loosening Control
    10.4 Official Winds, Invisible Castes
    10.5 Conclusions
11 Opportunities and Obstacles
    11.1 Introduction
    11.2 Parents
    11.3 Children
    11.4 In-Laws
    11.5 Pyrrhic Victories
    11.6 Conclusions
12 Conclusions

Length: 211 pages
Publisher: Springer; 1st ed. 2018 edition (May 11, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9811088748
ISBN-13: 978-9811088742