Multinational Corporations in West Africa

Building Decentralized Partnerships
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-53545-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 318 g

Reihe: Routledge Research on African Economics

This book investigates the relationship that Multinational Corporations form with Local Authorities and governments in West Africa. It argues that informal partnerships at the local level can provide significant socioeconomic benefits to communities and overcome shortfalls in state provision of infrastructure and collective goods and services.

Drawing on in-depth case studies in Niger, Ghana and Liberia, the book demonstrates that Decentralized Partnerships benefit from lower transaction costs while maintaining profitability and investment protection, whereas in formal relationships between multinationals and local government, asset specificity and uncertainty are high. By complying with informal rules, which are in many ways just as restrictive as formal rules, Multinational Corporations can adapt and acculturate themselves, become actors of territorial authorities and can get around the incompleteness of the contract that binds them to the state.

Reflecting on a range of local projects (educational, infrastructural, health, micro-financial, entrepreneurial), this book provides a rich and detailed assessment of the interactions between Local Authorities and Multinational Firms.

The book will be useful to upper-level students and researchers across the fields of economics, business, sociology, anthropology and African studies as well as to development practitioners and regional and international organizations with interest in the functioning of Multinational Corporations in local environments.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Doumbia, Souleymane

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensorganisation & Entwicklungsstrategien
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmenskultur, Corporate Governance
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. Chapter 1- The Challenges of this Book. Chapter 2 - Territorialized investments in Sub-Saharan Africa. Chapter 3- Theoretical interpretation of the Decentralized Partnership (DePa). Chapter 4 - Three cases of Decentralized Partnerships (DePa) in West Africa. Chapter 5 - Performance of Decentralized Partnerships (DePa). Conclusion. Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Souleymane Doumbia has a PhD in economics and management and is a member associated to the LAREQUOI, Research Center of ISM-IAE Graduate School of Management–UVSQ/Paris-Saclay University (France). His work focuses on development economics. He is a capacity-building specialist.