Anthropology of Entrepreneurship in Post-Socialist Countries

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26370939
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Cultural anthropology
• Research Institution: Hokkaido University
• Principal Investigator: GOTO Masanori 北海道大学, スラブ・ユーラシア研究センター, 博士研究員 (70435949)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): CHIDA Tetsuro 北海道大学, スラブ・ユーラシア研究センター, 助教 (10612012)
• Research Collaborator: OISHI Yuka 日本学術振興会, 特別研究員
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: アントレプレナーシップ / ポスト社会主義 / 農業 / 牧畜 / 文化人類学 / ロシア / モンゴル

Outline of Final Research Achievements

There is a general understanding that the entrepreneurship means a personal skill or endowments of business management in the market sphere. Especially in post-Socialist countries the emergence of entrepreneurs is regarded as a yardstick to measure the transitional process of economic structure. However, in actual economic practice, the social frame or the relationship between actors are closely related with the realization of entrepreneurship. The finding of this research is that the entrepreneurship is not a catalyst of economic rationalization, but rather an axis of economic activities that repeat making and resetting of relations of actors, and that are opened to make new relations with others.

Free Research Field

文化人類学