Toward a Theory of the Informal Economy

By Paul C. Godfrey. 2011

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Subfields: Business and International Management, Economics and Econometrics, Marketing

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Global entrepreneurship and institutions: an introduction (2014, background): “A recent example is the inclusion of questions to track formal and informal entrepreneurial entries to respond to recent interest in the topic (Godfrey, 2011).”
Institutions, Resources, and Organizational Effectiveness in Africa (2015, background): “However, given that the formal economy is a small proportion of the overall economy (Godfrey, 2011), the effects of formal institutions on organizations may be limited, thus necessitating that we pay attention to informal institutions.”
Research on entrepreneurship in the informal economy: Framing a research agenda (2013, background): “However, a burgeoning stream of research rightfully acknowledges that informality is more continuous than dichotomous (e.g., Godfrey, 2011; Guha-Khasnobis et al., 2006).”
The Influence of Formal and Informal Institutional Voids on Entrepreneurship (2020, neutral): “Godfrey, P. C. (2011).”
Informal Entrepreneurship in Developing Economies: The Impacts of Starting up Unregistered on firm Performance (2017, background): “Informal entrepreneurship is viewed as an endeavor occurring outside of formal institutional prescriptions but within the norms, values, and beliefs of informal institutions (Godfrey, 2011; Kistruck, Webb, Sutter, & Bailey, 2015; Siqueira et al., 2016; Webb et al.; Welter, Smallbone, & Pobol, 2015).”
Ethics and entrepreneurship: A bibliometric study and literature review (2019, background): “…and Schulze (2009) Article 59 Rudnyckyj (2009) Review 58 Béchard and Grégoire (2005) Proceedings paper 56 Von Schnitzler (2008) Proceedings paper 52 Godfrey (2011) Article 47 Wood, Bhuian, and Kiecker (2000) Article 46 Vigoda (2000) Proceedings paper Faltholm, and Ylinenpaa (2013), who highlighted…”
Entrepreneurship Amid Concurrent Institutional Constraints in Less Developed Countries (2016, background): “For instance, international business scholars have often depicted developing countries per their institutional voids (Khanna & Palepu, 1997, 1999) to account for relative macro-level gaps in national governance systems when compared with more advanced economies (Godfrey, 2011; Khanna, Palepu, & Sinh”
Economic and political institutions and entry into formal and informal entrepreneurship (2014, neutral): “More research with appropriate individual-level data and designs is required to address the substitutioncomplementarity challenge introduced by Godfrey (2011).”
Enforcing higher labor standards within developing country value chains: Consequences for MNEs and informal actors in a dual economy (2019, background): “The informal sector is often associated with rural populations, but also with the urban poor (Godfrey, 2011; Narula, 2018).”
Entrepreneurial activity in the informal economy: a missing piece of the entrepreneurship jigsaw puzzle (2015, background): “Also, the boundaries between what considers illicit activities and informal activities, frequently used to theorize informal entrepreneurship (Godfrey 2011; Webb et al. 2009), are fuzzy and permeable as has been shown for the case of crossborder entrepreneurship and petty trading (Bruns et al.…”