The hidden enterprise culture - Entrepreneurship in the underground economy

By A. Rehn. 2007

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Tackling the hidden enterprise culture: Government policies to support the formalization of informal entrepreneurship (2012, background): “It is now widely recognized not only that the informal sector is large and growing across the globe (ILO 2002a, 2002b; Schneider 2008; Charmes 2009; Jütting and Laiglesia 2009), but also that many entrepreneurs trade wholly or partially in the informal economy (Williams 2006).”
Determinants of the Level of Informality of Informal Micro-Enterprises: Some Evidence from the City of Lahore, Pakistan (2016, background): “…et al 2013; Bruhn & McKenzie 2013; Kanbur 2009; Ram et al 2002a,b; Small Business Council 2004; Verreyne et al 2014; de Villiers Scheepers et al 2014; Williams 2006; Williams & Martinez 2014), no studies have so far sought to explain the reasons they operate at varying levels of informality.”
Informal entrepreneurship and institutional theory: explaining the varying degrees of (in)formalization of entrepreneurs in Pakistan (2016, background): “…that two-thirds of unregistered enterprises did not know where to find the tax office and only 10% had heard of the commerce registry (McKenzie and Sakho 2010). as such, increasing the awareness about how to register has been suggested as a way forward (Williams 2006; Jones, Ram, and Edwards 2004).”
Entrepreneurship and the Informal Sector (2009, background): “…societies (Evans et al, 2006; Katungi et al, 2006; Lazaridis and Koumandraki, 2003; Llanes and Barbour, 2007; Renooy et al, 2004; Snyder, 2004; Williams, 2004, 2006), until now, few have evaluated this necessity-driven portrayal of informal entrepreneurs critically in relation to the majority…”
Beyond Necessity-Driven Versus Opportunity-Driven Entrepreneurship (2008, background): “The informal economy, or what is variously called ‘cash-in-hand work’, ‘off-the-books’ transactions, the ‘shadow economy’ or the ‘underground sector’, is here defined as the paid production and sale of goods and services that are unregistered by, or hidden from, the state for tax and/or benefit purp”
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…”