Where legal systems and market forces enforce contracts inadequately, vertical integration can circumvent these transaction difficulties. But, such environments often also feature highly interventionist government, and even corruption. Vertical integration might then enhance returns to political...

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Problem of Social Order -- 1. Institutions and Social Order: Sociological and Economic Approaches -- 2. Self-Governance and Social Order: A More Political Approach -- 3. Benign Neglect:...

The common roots of success and failure in economic growth and development lie in the systemic governance and fragmentation of institutional complementarities, respectively, but not in the unilateral adaptation of market-led or state-led models. To substantiate this argument, Akan utilizes case...

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Boxes -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Part I. Kenya Business Context -- Chapter 1. Business Systems: An Overview -- Chapter 2. Business Systems Theory: An African Perspective --...

"The United States has led other nations in creating a legal, economic, social, and political ecosystem that has proven extraordinarily effective at fostering entrepreneurship. Evidence of this country's status as a powerful launchpad for entrepreneurship runs throughout its history. It is not a...