Entrepreneurship and Management in an Islamic Context

259 Pages·2017·3.34 MB·English

by  Veland Ramadani

Veland Ramadani · Le´o-Paul Dana
Shqipe Gërguri-Rashiti · Vanessa Ratten
Editors
Entrepreneurship
and Management
in an Islamic
Context
Entrepreneurship and Management in an Islamic
Context
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Veland Ramadani (cid:129) Le´o-Paul Dana (cid:129)
Shqipe Ge¨rguri-Rashiti (cid:129) Vanessa Ratten
Editors
Entrepreneurship and
Management in an Islamic
Context
Editors
VelandRamadani Le´o-PaulDana
South-EastEuropeanUniversity MontpellierBusinessSchool
Tetovo,Macedonia Montpellier,France
ShqipeGe¨rguri-Rashiti VanessaRatten
AmericanUniversityofMiddle-East LaTrobeBusinessUniversity
Egaila,Kuwait Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
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TomygrandmothersMuazesandFeride,who
taught me the fundamentals of Islam.
Veland Ramadani
To my late father Albert and my mother
Clemy, gone with the earthquake of 2011.
Le´o-Paul Dana
TomydearesthusbandBeratforhispatience,
care and love and my precious daughters
Lina, Aja and Ujana. A special dedication
also goes to my beloved mother Drita Beqiri
who always believed in me and helped my
dreams come true.
Shqipe Ge¨rguri-Rashiti
To my mother Kaye Ratten, who I miss every
day and taught me everything I know.
Vanessa Ratten
“Since Weber, we know that culture and
religion are playing a key role in driving
human decisions and behaviors for both
private and professional lives. The merit of
this book is to invite the readers to learn
about the interplay of Islamic context with
entrepreneurship and management activities.
It offers a set of 14 comprehensive chapters
covering different perspectives and issues in
relation to such interplay.”
Alain Fayolle,
AcademyofManagementENTDivision
Chair Elect
EM LYON Business School, France
Foreword
I am honored and humbled to write this Foreword for a handbook that presents a
comprehensiveoverviewinanemergingareaofresearchofferingmanifoldinsights
for theory and practice. The oeuvre in front of you reaches across space from
Ghana, Jordan, Lebanon to the UAE; across time from early Islam to the present;
acrosscategoriessuchasethnicity,gender,nationalitiesandage;andacrosstopics
from Islamic entrepreneurship, finance, leadership to Management. It also tackles
bothtextandcontext:fromsacredscriptureuptoprofanepractice.
Whilereligionmattersinentrepreneurshipandmanagementpractice,itstheory
andtheorizationisdominatedbyasacralizedsecularhegemony.Yet,religionisa
social fact that matters in and around organizations; and the social sciences
explain—not prescribe—reality. Islam specifically is the second largest religion
intheworldwithagrowingnumberofadherents.ReligioningeneralandIslamin
particular thus warrants much more critical engagement and analysis through
management scholars. Such scholarly pursuits connect work with worship to
examinewhat Icall ‘wor(k)ship’,whereby religious peoplewish todowellwhile
adhering to their faith, rather than compartmentalizing their lives into different
spheres.
The false dichotomy between the public and private, the professional and the
personal underlies adeep desire tostructure and categorize, toidentify anddelin-
eate boundaries in a complex modernity. These socially constructed boundaries
enableandconstrainusconcurrently.Theyaredouble-edgedswords.Thepredom-
inant scholarly pursuit for parsimonious explanations as well as the increase of
scholarlyspecialization has lead tojurisdictionswithin ourvery own professional
communities and the partitioning of the objects of inquiry. This handbook, in
contrast, offers an interdisciplinary approach that bridges rather than reinforces
artificialboundaries.
Even more so, I believe that, unfortunately, the theoretical partitioning has
permeated the very phenomena to an extent that theory does not simply explain,
butratherformsreality.Academicsmaywishtorestraintheworldthroughtheory
andthusfalltraptotheattempttocreateaworldaccordingtotheirsometimestoo
simplisticimagination,ratherthandepictingtherichnessofreality.Thehandbook
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athandoffersacounterpoint.Thismayalsohelpbridgingwhatissometimescalled
intheChristianfaiththeSunday–Mondaydivideandwhoseequivalentmaybethe
Friday–SaturdayorThursday–FridaydivideforMuslims.Thehandbookthusoffers
practitioners a mirror to their religiously shaped intent, rather than to their learnt
andpotentiallyunintendedpractices.
IamgratefultotheeditorsVelandRamadani,Le´o-PaulDana,ShqipeGe¨rguri-
Rashiti and Vanessa Ratten and the many contributors that they have taken upon
themselves to push our knowledge frontier forward—in a realm that (still) faces
manychallenges.Religionisanintegralpartofoursocialandsocietalspheres,i.e.,
our soci(et)al context; yet largely absent from our literatures. This work is a
significant step to counter that neglect by zooming in on the Islamic context. It
remainsformetosaytothereaderthatIwishthistobeanilluminating,thoughtand
practicechallengingandchangingread.
Sa¨ıdBusinessSchool,UniversityofOxford AliAslanG€um€usay
Oxford,UK
March15,2016
Acknowledgment
We would like to thank the respectable contributors of this volume to the upmost
degree.Thegenerosityanddedicationshownthroughtheirexperience,knowledge
and research were priceless. Without them, this book would never find its way to
academicresearchers,students,andentrepreneurs.
To the reviewers, exemplary individuals of academia in the field of entrepre-
neurshipandmanagement,whohavepursuedtheirpassiontobetterusall,wealso
oweadebtofgratitude.Withouttherespectedandappreciatedreviewers,thisbook
wouldnothavethesamevalueemphasizingthecrucialaspectsofthetheoreticand
practicalinsightsprovidedbythecontributors.
TotherenownedlecturerandresearcherinthefieldofIslamicentrepreneurship
andmanagement,AliAslanG€um€usay,weliketoextendaspecialacknowledgment
forhisappreciatedforewordtothebook.Hisremarkableabilitytoaddressreaders
with his thoughts and views provides justifiable proof of the significance of this
pioneeringbookaboutentrepreneurshipandmanagementinanIslamiccontext.
As well, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to Sadush Tahiri, a
respectable imam of the Chair Mosque, in Macedonia, for sharing his knowledge
regarding the religious issues, specifically looking at business issues from the
Islamicperspective.
TotheeditorfromSpringer,PrashanthMahagaonkar,andhissplendidteam,we
aregratefulfortheirthoughtfulsuggestions,support,andencouragementthatwere
offeredandwellreceived.
Finally,toourfamilies,friendsandcolleagues,wemustexpressouraffectionate
thanks.Theystoodbyussincetheveryfirstbeginningwhentheideaofthisbook
waslaunched.Theirsupportandmotivationarealwaysirreplaceableandnecessary
foreachofus.Wededicateourgratitude,appreciation,andloveforthem.
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