Mobilizing a Market: Ethnic Segmentation and Investor Recruitment into the Nairobi Securities Exchange

Administrative Science Quarterly

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 561-595

  Yenkey, Christopher B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

emerging markets; inter ethnic trust; Kenya; market development; Nairobi Securities Exchange; social segmentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84945936231     PISSN: 00018392     EISSN: 19303815     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0001839215597269     Document Type: Article

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