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Rokiah and her business partner, Ishak — two ambitious Malay entrepreneurs — had been searching for an entrepreneurial venture for their new company when Arif, Rokiah’s cousin, called her with exciting news.1 ‘We are going to make a lot of money’, he announced. ‘I have been developing a business I want you to share in. Please meet me tonight to discuss this project, but you must keep it top secret!’
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© 1999 Patricia Sloane
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Sloane, P. (1999). Obligation and Identity: Parents, Spouses, Siblings, and Malays. In: Islam, Modernity and Entrepreneurship among the Malays. St Antony’s Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230372085_2
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