Trust, Networks and Norms: The Creation of Social Capital in Agricultural Economies in Ghana

By Fergus Lyon. 2000

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Informal Entrepreneurship in Developing Economies: The Impacts of Starting up Unregistered on firm Performance (2017, background): “…in separate markets which find the costs of registration in terms of searching for and switching to a new network too costly (Demenet et al., 2015; Lyon, 2000; Rivera-Santos & Rufin, 2010; Webb et al., 2009), particularly with regard to suppliers and investors (Skousen & Mahoney, 2015), which…”
Una perspectiva del capital social desde las ciencias sociales: capital social y acción colectiva* (2003, background): “10 Barr, 1998; Hyden, 1994; Lyon, 2000; Narayan y Pritchett, 1999; Francis, 1998; Widner y Mundt, 1998.”
‘I Don’t Trust the Phone; It Always Lies’ (2007, methodology): “In particular, there is a need to better know whether mobile phones play a role in creating and maintaining trust in business outside the family where “networks of working relationships” (Lyon 2000, 671) do not already exist, and where face-to-face relationships are not possible.”
Social capital, member participation, and cooperative performance: Evidence from China’s Zhejiang (2015, background): “Norms specify what actions are acceptable or unacceptable (Lyon 2000), whereas trust is the confidence or belief in other agents that perseveres in spite of uncertainties, risks, and opportunisms (Misztal 1996).”
Building Trust in Economic Space (2006, background): “2 From a political economy and community development perspective, trust is a key contributor to civil society, a factor granting legitimacy to governments and political institutions, and an indicator of social cohesion (Putnam, 1993; 2000; Platteau 1994a; 1994b; Fukuyama 1995; 2001; Knack et al., 19”
Know Your Neighbors, Save the Planet (2016, background): “Nonetheless, the positive outcomes of community social capital are evident in both the developing world where small communities may effectively pool resources to solve collective problems (Krishna, 2002; Lyon, 2000), and in economically advanced societies where local and regional collectivities esta”
Who talks with whom? The role of repeated interactions in decentralized forest governance (2004, background): “Second, both vertical and horizontal communication can––if repeated over time, and if the group members value the potential future benefits from cooperation––lead to greater trust between participating actors (Lyon, 2000; Ostrom & Ahn, 2003; Petro, 2001; Putnam, 1993).”
Social capital or analytical liability? Social networks and African informal economies (2005, background): “Others argue that African form the wrong types of networks, owing to the redistributive and parochial character of African social institutions (Barr 1999, Callaghy 1988, 1994, Fafchamps 1996, Fafchamps & Minten 1999, 2000, Lyon 2000, Van Donge 1995).”