Summary
This award funds a research project that will study the effects of governance and trust in determining autonomous growth of local economies. It compares variation in technology, finance, business structures governance, social identities, and trust among local people between and across two local economies. This research is designed to better understand technology, finance, existing Small, Medium, and Micro Enterprises (SMMEs), and the extent to which these entities are influenced by governance, social identities and networks, and localized trust. The project will use a three-stage researc
