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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 ThiSisaFMBlankPage 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 ISBN978-3-319-39677-4 ISBN978-3-319-39679-8 (eBook) DOI10.1007/978-3-319-39679-8 LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2016951845 ©SpringerInternationalPublishingSwitzerland2017 Thisworkissubjecttocopyright.AllrightsarereservedbythePublisher,whetherthewholeorpartof the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilarmethodologynowknownorhereafterdeveloped. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publicationdoesnotimply,evenintheabsenceofaspecificstatement,thatsuchnamesareexempt fromtherelevantprotectivelawsandregulationsandthereforefreeforgeneraluse. Thepublisher,theauthorsandtheeditorsaresafetoassumethattheadviceandinformationinthis book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained hereinorforanyerrorsoromissionsthatmayhavebeenmade. Printedonacid-freepaper ThisSpringerimprintispublishedbySpringerNature TheregisteredcompanyisSpringerInternationalPublishingAGSwitzerland 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 vii viii Foreword 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. ix
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