Trust: Creating the Foundation for Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries [Large Print 16 Pt Edition] - Softcover

Khanna, Tarun

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1038727006 ISBN 13: 9781038727008

Verlag: ReadHowYouWant, 2018

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Trust Creating the Foundation for Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries Entrepreneurial ventures often fail in the developing world because of the lack of something taken for granted in the developed world: trust. Over centuries the developed world has built up customs and institutions like enforceable contracts, an impartial legal system, credible regulatory bodies, even unofficial but respected sources of information like Yelp or Consumer Reports that have created a high level of what scholar and entrepreneur Tarun Khanna calls ''ambient trust.'' If a product is FDA-approved we feel confident it's safe. If someone makes an untrue claim or breaks an agreement we can sue. Police don't demand bribes to do their jobs. Certainly there are exceptions, but when brought to light they provoke a scandal, not a shrug. This is not the case in the developing world. But rather than become casualties of mistrust, Khanna shows that smart entrepreneurs adopt the mindset that, like it or not, it's up to them to weave their own independent web of trust with their employees, their partners, their clients, their customers and with society as a whole...

As reviewed in Global University Venturing and The World Economic Forum in June 2018

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Tarun Khanna is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School. In 2007, he was named Young Global Leader (under 40) by the World Economic Forum, and in 2009, he was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of International Business. In 2015, he was named Chairman of the Indian government's commission on Entrepreneurship and Innovation. In 2016, the Academy of Management conferred on him its Eminent Scholar Lifetime achievement award for scholarship in International Management. He serves on numerous for-profit and not-for-profit boards in the US and India. Recently, he co-founded Axilor, a vibrant incubator in Bangalore.

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• Verlag: ReadHowYouWant
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1038727006
• ISBN 13: 9781038727008
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 268
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