The book is based on original research on the entrepreneurial leaders in the Malay community and on the author''s own participation in Malay business ventures. Sloane draws on her experience of working in Wall Street to analyse the ironies and contradictions in both the prevailing Western, Asian and Malay definitions of entrepreneurship and the ''heroes'' of competing styles of capitalism.

The book is based on original research on the entrepreneurial leaders in the Malay community and on the author''s own participation in Malay business ventures. Sloane draws on her experience of working in Wall Street to analyse the ironies and contradictions in both the prevailing Western, Asian and Malay definitions of entrepreneurship and the ''heroes'' of competing styles of capitalism.