Yakubu Zakaria - Entrepreneurial Ethics and Trust: Cultural Foundations and Networks in the Nigerian Plastic Industry

Entrepreneurial Ethics and Trust: Cultural Foundations and Networks in the Nigerian Plastic Industry — read online for free the complete book (whole text) full work

Below is the text of the book, divided by pages. System saving the place of the last page read, allows you to conveniently read the book "Entrepreneurial Ethics and Trust: Cultural Foundations and Networks in the Nigerian Plastic Industry" online for free, without having to search again every time where you left off. Put a bookmark, and you can go to the page where you finished reading at any time.

Light

Font size:

↓

↑

Georgia Tahoma Arial Verdana

Reset

Interval:

↓

↑

Bookmark:

Make

1234567...90

ENTREPRENEURIAL ETHICS AND TRUST

The Making of Modern Africa

Series Editors: Abebe Zegeye and John Higginson

Growth or Stagnation? South Africa heading for the year 2000
Mats Lundahl

Sudans Predicament Civil war, displacement and ecological degradation
Edited by Girma Kebbede

Doctors and the State The struggle for professional control in Zimbabwe
Dorothy Mutizwa-Mangiza

Class Formation and Civil Society: The Politics o f Education in Africa
Patrick M. Boyle

The Social Services Crisis of the 1990s
Edited by Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka

Oil and Fiscal Federalism in Nigeria
Augustine A. Ikein and Comfort Briggs-Anigboh

Environment, Health and Population Displacement
Andrew E. Collins

International Banking and Rural Development
Pade Badru

Structural Adjustment and Mass Poverty in Ghana
Kwabena Donkor

Contemporary Issues in Socio-economic Reform in Zambia
Edited by Herrick C. Mpuku and Ivan Zyuulu

The State and Organised Labour in Botswana
Monageng Mogalakwe

First published 1999 by Ashgate Publishing

Reissued 2018 by Routledge

2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN

711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

Copyright Yakubu Zakaria 1999

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

Notice:

Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.

Publishers Note

The publisher has gone to great lengths to ensure the quality of this reprint but points out that some imperfections in the original copies may be apparent.

Disclaimer

The publisher has made every effort to trace copyright holders and welcomes correspondence from those they have been unable to contact.

A Library of Congress record exists under LC control number: 99073623

ISBN 13: 978-1-138-62465-8 (hbk)

ISBN 13: 978-0-429-46061-6 (ebk)

Tables

Figures

Maps

ACCs:

Advanced Capitalist Countries

AD:

Anno Domini (year of the Christian Calendar)

AFEM:

Autonomous Foreign Exchange Market

AFF:

Advanced Fee Fraud (419)

AH:

Anno Hegirae (year of the Hijra)

BOP:

Balance of Payment

CAC:

Corporate Affairs Commission

CBN:

Central Bank of Nigeria

CFAO:

Compagnie Francais DAfrique Occidentale

COP:

Current Operating Profit

FAO:

Food and
Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations

EIU:

The Economist Intelligence Unit

FEPA:

Federal Environmental Protection Agency

FTSE:

Financial Times Stock Exchange

IAP:

Industrial Arbitration Panel

ILO:

International Labour Organisation

ITF:

Industrial Training Fund

KSG:

Kano State Government

LDCs:

Less Developed Countries

MAN:

Manufactures Association of Nigeria

NECA:

Nigerian Employers Consultative Association

NEPA:

Nigerian Electric Power Authority

NEPD:

Nigerian Enterprises Promotion Decree

NEPU:

Northern Elements Progressive Union

NIC:

National Industrial Court

NPF:

National Provident Fund

NLC:

Nigerian Labour Congress

NNPC:

Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation

NPC:

National Population Commission

OPEC:

Organisation of Petroleum Producing Countries

PPIB:

Price Productivity and Incomes Board

PRP:

Peoples Redemption Party

PVC:

Polyvinylchloride

SAP:

Structural Adjustment Program

SCOA:

Socit Commerciale Ouest Africaine

SON:

Standards Organisation of Nigeria

UAC:

United African Company

UNCTAD:

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

UNESCO:

United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation

My aim in this book is to provide a comprehensive analysis of how culture influences entrepreneurial ethics and trust in a northern Nigerian society centred in Kano. I begin with the assumption that culture does not operate in a vacuum. It influence political, economic, and social institutions and vice versa.

The book is not intended to explore all the broad aspects of culture and societal development. Rather, it is set to examine the interplay among culture, entrepreneurial ethic and trust relations in the northern Nigerian plastic industry. To provide a meaningful interpretation of the cases, various cross-cultural paradigms, and their relevance for providing an understanding of the culturally peculiar patterns in the business organisations are reviewed. Apart from the plastic sector, the book explores wide-ranging topics that strike the core of contemporary business behaviour in Nigeria and many developing societies.

To arrive at a meaningful understanding of contemporary business behaviour, the historical evolution of indigenous entrepreneurship is examined. A look at the link between culture and entrepreneurial rationality is significant to the study. Thus, the logics between religious reform and new forms of entrepreneurial rationalisations are crucial in this regard. The analysis of rationality in Hausa society is extended in the latter part of the study to cover hidden economic activities of secluded women.

Entrepreneurial trust relations and their implications for the business sector are crucial to this study. In the concluding sections of the study, an attempt is made at reformulating the modernisation theory from a cultural perspective.

Having said this, it will be most remiss on my part not to mention the important contributions of people and institutions from which various kinds of support was received. First and foremost, my sincere thanks to Professor Emeritus Ulf Himmelstrand for reading early drafts of this book and providing the necessary guidance. The association with Professor Himmelstrand has yielded immense academic profit and highly cherished personal experience in terms of patience. To Professor Tom R. Burns, Dr. Endre Stiansen and Steve Turner, I am most indebted for the incisive and constructive criticisms on the early drafts of the manuscript. Professors Peter Ekeh and Said Arjomand were very effective in drawing my attention to new topics and relevant literature on the subject. In preparation of this book, I have also benefitted from the editorial talents of Leslie Irvine, Minna Richt and Emily Merson. None of these people should be held responsible for any of the views I express.

Next page

1234567...90

Light

Font size:

↓

↑

Georgia Tahoma Arial Verdana

Reset

Interval:

↓

↑

Bookmark:

Make

Similar books «Entrepreneurial Ethics and Trust: Cultural Foundations and Networks in the Nigerian Plastic Industry»

Look at similar books to Entrepreneurial Ethics and Trust: Cultural Foundations and Networks in the Nigerian Plastic Industry. We have selected literature similar in name and meaning in the hope of providing readers with more options to find new, interesting, not yet read works.

Marie Söderberg

Japanese Influences and Presences in Asia

David C. Rose

Why Culture Matters Most

Richard Bendix

Work and Authority in Industry: Managerial Ideologies in the Course of Industrialization

Yang Gao

Sustainability in the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem: Operating Mechanisms and Enterprise Growth

Lovin

Christian Ethics: Revolutionizing the Congregation

Bstan-dzinrgya-mtsho. Dalai Lama XIV

Ethics for the New Millennium

Earl H. Potter III Collection.

Trust: the social virtues and the creation of prosperity

Russell

Human Society in Ethics and Politics

Terrence M. Kelly

Professional Ethics: A Trust-Based Approach

Isaac Oduro Amoako

Trust, Institutions and Managing Entrepreneurial Relationships in Africa: An SME Perspective

Tarun Khanna

Trust: Creating the Foundation for Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries

Grant Ledgerwood

Environment Ethics and the Corporation

Discussion, reviews of the book Entrepreneurial Ethics and Trust: Cultural Foundations and Networks in the Nigerian Plastic Industry and just readers' own opinions. Leave your comments, write what you think about the work, its meaning or the main characters. Specify what exactly you liked and what you didn't like, and why you think so.