Beyond Necessity-Driven Versus Opportunity-Driven Entrepreneurship

By Colin Williams. 2008

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Beyond necessity versus opportunity entrepreneurship: some lessons from English deprived urban neighbourhoods (2011, unknown): “…these main motivations by whether they involve an active choice (“opportunity” entrepreneurship or “pull” factors) or whether it is the best option available but not necessarily the preferred option (“necessity” entrepreneurship or “push” factors) (Bosma et al. 2008; DTI 2007; Williams 2008b).”
Young Entrepreneurs in the Mobile Telephony Sector in Ghana: From Necessities to Aspirations (2017, methodology): “…have focused on enterprises in Europe (Aidis et al., 2007; Smallbone & Welter, 2003; Williams & Youssef, 2014) and the Americas (Snyder, 2004; Williams, 2008) with little coverage given to the SSA situation and particularly among young people (though see Langevang et al. 2011 for an…”
Motivation, self-efficacy, and risk attitudes among entrepreneurs during transition to a market economy (2011, background): “For example, Williams (2008) found that entrepreneurs in hree different countries, one well-developed economy – the UK nd two transition economies – Ukraine and Russia, the most ften observed pattern of motivation involved opportunity and ecessity factors (in different proportions).”
Necessity entrepreneurship and competitive strategy (2014, unknown): “…and resources than those of differentiation, as in some sectors of the economy and among very small businesses, simply the condition of low labor costs can bestow firm viability: and those costs can be shaved simply by a founder and her relatives being willing to work for low wages (Williams 2008).”
Entrepreneurship and the Informal Sector (2009, unknown): “…enterprise culture has also begun to take hold in Western economies and post-socialist societies (Evans et al, 2006; Katungi et al, 2006; Lazaridis and Koumandraki, 2003; Llanes and Barbour, 2007; Renooy et al, 2004; Round and Williams, 2008; Round et al, 2008; Snyder, 2004; Williams 2004, 2006).”
Informal entrepreneurship and institutional theory: explaining the varying degrees of (in)formalization of entrepreneurs in Pakistan (2016, background): “…al. 2012; Williams 2013; Williams, Round, and Rodgers 2013), either by discussing whether they are necessity- and/or opportunity-driven (adom 2014; Williams 2008, 2009a, 2010; Williams and Round 2009; Williams and Youssef 2014), or by adopting institutional theory to explain the prevalence of…”
Determinants of the Level of Informality of Informal Micro-Enterprises: Some Evidence from the City of Lahore, Pakistan (2016, background): “Instead, most evaluate the ratio of exit-driven to exclusion-driven informal enterprises (Williams 2008, 2009).”
Economic and political institutions and entry into formal and informal entrepreneurship (2014, unknown): “…of sociological, ethnographic, institutional, and comparative economic research on the informal economy (e.g., de Soto, 2002; Djankov et al., 2003b; Williams, 2006, 2008), relatively little 5 We conducted a similar test using the larger sample of 67 countries worldwide (p = .802) and reached the…”