Mennonite Entrepreneurs

Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-0-8018-6829-0
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 490 g

Reihe: Center Books in Anabaptist Studies

Calvin Redekop and his co-authors argue that Mennonite successes in the business world are the result of skillful adaptation of the sect's "communal ethic."

Autoren/Hrsg.

Redekop, Calvin

Ainlay, Stephen C

Siemens, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensführung
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Protestantismus, evangelische und protestantische Kirchen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgments
Part I. Mennonites and Entrepreneurial Activity
Chapter 1. Historical and Theological Perspectives
Chapter 2. Religion and Entrepreneurial Activity: Congruous, Contradictory, or Paradoxical?
Part II. The Ethos and Experience of the Mennonite Entrepreneur
Chapter 3. The Ethos of the North American Mennonite Entrepreneur
Chapter 4. The Entrepreneur and Work: Community or Self-Advancement?
Chapter 5. Entrepreneurial Upward Mobility and the Dilemmas of Success
Chapter 6. Herioc Conformity and Community Alienation
Chapter 7. Rationalizing Faith and Business
Chapter 8. Mennonite Faith and Economic Ideologies
Part III. Theoretical Reflections
Chapter 9. Sociological Paradigms and Mennonite Economic Sociology
Chapter 10. The Cultural Contradictions of Memmonite Life and Utopian Economics
Appendix. Methodological Notes
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ainlay, Stephen C
Stephen C. Ainlay is the former president of Union College.

Redekop, Calvin
Calvin W. Redekop is a professor of sociology emeritus at Conrad Grebel College, University of Waterloo, Ontario. His many books include The Old Colony Mennonites, Mennonite Society, Anabaptist-Mennonite Faith and Economics, and Mennonite Entrepreneurs, the last available from Johns Hopkins.

Calvin W. Redekop is a professor of sociology emeritus at Conrad Grebel College, University of Waterloo, Ontario. His many books include The Old Colony Mennonites, Mennonite Society, Anabaptist-Mennonite Faith and Economics, and Mennonite Entrepreneurs, the last available from Johns Hopkins. Stephen C. Ainlay is the former president of Union College. Benjamin W. Redekop is an assistant professor of social science at Kettering University.