“…Norms underpinning ties embedded in contracts (Macneil, 1980;Sobel, 2008), family and kinship (Granovetter, 1985;Drakopoulou-Dodd, 2011), religion (Dana, 2010;Drakopoulou Dodd and Gotsis, 2007), trade associations (Lyon and Porter, 2009), credit relations (Amoako and Lyon, 2014) have been driving entrepreneurial relationships in various contexts. However, it is possible that, for example, norms of gender and religion (Munshi and Rosenzweig;Essers et al, 2013) as well as loyalty and strong reciprocity within certain networks (Lyon and Porter, 2009) could constrain enterprise development.…”