The double-edged sword of legitimacy in base-of-the-pyramid markets

By Geoffrey M. Kistruck, Justin W. Webb, Christopher Sutter, Anastasia V. G. Bailey. 2015

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

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Citations in the corpus

• Informal Entrepreneurship in Developing Economies: The Impacts of Starting up Unregistered on firm Performance (2017, background): “…do not align, as is common in many developing countries, the result is informal entrepreneurship which, although formally illegal, is deemed socially legitimate (De Castro, Khavul, & Bruton, 2014; Kistruck et al., 2015; Siqueira et al., 2016; Webb et al., 2013; Webb, Ireland, & Ketchen, 2014).”
• Evaluating the relationship between marginalization and participation in undeclared work: lessons from Bosnia and Herzegovina (2021, background): “Undeclared work is viewed as illegal but socially legitimate activity that exists when the formal institutions are not in symmetry with the norms, values and beliefs that constitute the informal institutions (De Castro et al. 2014; Kistruck et al. 2015; Siqueira et al. 2016; Thai and Turkina 2014; W”
• Determinants of the Level of Informality of Informal Micro-Enterprises: Some Evidence from the City of Lahore, Pakistan (2016, background): “…DETERMINANTS In recent years, there has been a burgeoning literature on enterprises and entrepreneurs operating in the informal sector (Dau & Cuervo-Cazurra 2014; Kistruck et al. 2014; Radchenko 2014; Siqueira et al. 2014; Thai & Turkina 2014; Webb et al 2009, 2013, 2014; Williams & Martinez 2014).”
• Developing entrepreneurship in Africa: investigating critical resource challenges (2017, background): “Accordingly, many African businesses remain unsupported, informal and unregistered (Kistruck et al., 2015).”