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1 online resource (288 pages) |
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Routledge Revivals Ser |
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Routledge Revivals Ser
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Tables, Figures and Maps; Abbreviations; Preface and Acknowledgements; Part I: Method of Analysis, and Theoretical Orientation; 1 Introduction; Distinct Characteristics of the Study; Method, and Unit of Analysis; Cultural Analyses of Economic Development; Culture's Relevance; Theoretical Orientation; Some Limitations of Cultural Theories; An Outline of the Study; 2 The Making of Indigenous Entrepreneurs; Venture Capital and New Businesses; The Colonial Epoch and Indigenous Entrepreneurs; Entrepreneurs and Risk Perception |
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Multiple Investments as Safety Strategy3 Transition to a Modem Economy; The Islamic Influence; Religious Groups and Socioeconomic Networks; Towards a Conceptualisation of Islamic Sociology; The Reconstruction of Rationality; Muslim Puritans and Islamic Reform; Islamic Reform and Rationalisation; 4 The Concept of Trust; Basic Conditions for Trust; The Relevance of Trust in Economic Transaction; Trust Via Clientelistic Networks; Summary and Conclusion of Part One; Part II: The Nigerian Plastic Industry, Entrepreneurial Profit Motive, and Resource Controls; 5 The Nigerian Economic Environment |
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The Plastic Manufacturing IndustryFactory A: An Indigenous Plastic Manufacturing Firm; Factory B: A Lebanese Plastic Firm; Factory C: A Chinese Plastic Firm; Clientelistic Relations as Recruitment Channels; Wage Bargaining in Non-Unionised Firms; Entrepreneurs and Factory Workers; Religion and Shop-floor Relations; 6 Entrepreneurs and the Profit Motive; Profit Perception in Business; Determinants of Profit; Profit Management among Entrepreneurs; Profit-Sharing and Trust; Entrepreneurs and Employee Trust Relations; Family Businesses in Northern Nigeria |
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7 Resource Control Methods in the Plastic FirmsFormal Controls and Business Performance; Product-Based Trustworthiness; Union Problems and Employee Discontent; Conflict Resolution Procedures; 8 The Informal Sector Economic Activities; Institutionalised Migration as an Economic Factor; Mobile Labour and the Business Sector; Expatriates Investors and the Socio-Cultural Milieu; Cultural Conceptions about Time; Entrepreneurial Use of Time; Summary of Part Two; Part III: General Summary, and Conclusions; 9 Women in a Hausa Society; Female Seclusion, a Historical Perspective |
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Female Industrial LabourPuritanical Islam and the Economic Woman; Female Activities in a Hidden Economy; 10 Entrepreneurs and Business Success; Business Success: An Elusive Concept; Why Most Businesses Fail; Demand limitations; Managerial constraints; Employee work habits; Cultural attributes; Symptoms of Business Failure; Some Effects of Modem Industry; 11 Economic Development: A General Appraisal; Dependency and World System's Perspectives; Modernisation Perspectives; Corruption and Business Fraud; Conceptual Problems; Institutional Context of Corruption |
| Notes |
Implications for Trust in the Business Sector |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Plastics industry and trade -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Nigeria -- Kano State
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Business ethics -- Nigeria -- Kano State
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Business ethics.
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Business ethics
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Nigeria -- Kano State
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429864247 |
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0429864248 |
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