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  title info:
    title: Trust, Institutions and Managing Entrepreneurial Relationships in Africa
    sub title: An SME Perspective
  name:
    name part: Amoako, Isaac Oduro.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XV, 287 p. 8 illus. online resource.
  abstract: 'This extremely timely publication addresses an important knowledge gap in this era of shifting economic power and global imbalances. Entrepreneurship is central to the growing success of the wider African economy and understanding the importance of trust within developing relationships can help the growth of long term profitable relationships. It also impacts positively in acting as a catalyst for the network development of local, national and international businesses. A further strength of the book is its cultural focus surrounding indigenous institutions. I am confident that readers will enjoy the innovative contents of this book and be influenced by its ideas.' -Ian Fillis, Professor of Marketing and Entrepreneurship, Liverpool Business School, Liverpool John Moores University, UK This book highlights the importance of understanding how trust and indigenous African cultural institutions enhance the development of entrepreneurial networks and relationships in Africa. Drawing on institutional theories, the author re-examines the way that entrepreneurial behaviour can be shaped, with a focus on trust, networks and the development of relationships. Analysing a combination of existing literature and empirical data from 50 internationally trading SMEs in Africa, this book reflects the growing interests of entrepreneurs, investors and corporate executives to develop trust and relationships with customers in order to invest and grow. By addressing the need for a greater understanding of how social and cultural institutions in Africa affect the continent's economy, this book not only offers theoretical frameworks, but also future implications for practice and policy, and will provide essential reading for those studying emerging markets and globalisation, African business, and entrepreneurship more generally.
  table of contents: 1. Introduction: Trust, Institutions and Managing Entrepreneurial Relationships in Africa -- Part I. Theories of Institutions, Trust and their Impact on Entrepreneurship -- 2. Institutions and Entrepreneurial Relationships Development -- 3. Trust in Inter-organisational Relationships -- Part II. Rethinking Institutions and Trust Development in Entrepreneurial Relationships in Africa -- 4. Institutions Influencing Trust Development in Entrepreneurial Relationships in Africa -- 5. Managing Entrepreneurial Personal and Working Relationships in Africa -- Part III. Trust in African Entrepreneurial Relationships -- 6. Trust Development in Entrepreneurial Relationships -- 7. Trust Violation in Entrepreneurial Relationships in Africa: Weak Institutions -- 8. Trust Repair in Entrepreneurial Relationships in Africa -- Part III. Conclusions -- 9. Conclusion and Future Implications.
  note: by Isaac Oduro Amoako.
  subject:
    topic: Entrepreneurship
  subject:
    topic: Globalization
  subject:
    topic: Markets
  subject:
    topic: International business enterprises
  subject:
    topic: Africa-Economic conditions
  subject:
    topic: Customer relations-Management
  subject:
    topic: Entrepreneurship
  subject:
    topic: Emerging Markets/Globalization
  subject:
    topic: African Business
  subject:
    topic: Customer Relationship Management
  subject:
    topic: African Economics
  classification: HB615
  classification: 658.421
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Palgrave Studies of Entrepreneurship in Africa
  identifier: 9783319983950
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98395-0
  record info:
    record creation date: 181127
    record change date: 20191022002312.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-98395-0