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2019 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Survivability and Sustainability of Traditional Industry in the Twenty-First Century: A Case of Indonesian Traditional Furniture SME in Jepara

Authors : Danu Patria, Petrus A. Usmanij, Vanessa Ratten

Published in: Subsistence Entrepreneurship

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Traditional industry is important and it has been existence as a source of employment and as a way of poverty reduction, particularly for people in rural developing country. This study presents an interesting case of a Indonesian rural Central Java traditional furniture making industry which is able to survive based on their orientation towards sustainability. Traditional furniture making Jepara in this study is able to survive the challenge of limited timber material sources and other constraints, except with practices to survive that consider to indicate sustainability issues. A livelihood theoretical framework is applied to analyze this traditional industry survivability case study. The finding of this study presents two significant factors behind the survivability, which is cultural reasons and the otherwise is no options.

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Metadata
Title
Survivability and Sustainability of Traditional Industry in the Twenty-First Century: A Case of Indonesian Traditional Furniture SME in Jepara
Authors
Danu Patria
Petrus A. Usmanij
Vanessa Ratten
Copyright Year
2019
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Book
Subsistence Entrepreneurship

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-11541-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-11542-5

Copyright Year: 2019

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11542-5_8