Institutional asymmetry: How formal and informal institutions affect entrepreneurship in Bulgaria

By Nick Williams, Tim Vorley. 2015

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Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

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Institutions and Entrepreneurship Quality (2018, background): “Economic development and efficiency of regulation in a country can gradually change the culture of corruption (Williams & Vorley, 2015; Estrin & Mickiewicz, 2011) by increasing the level of transparency and freedom of the press and improving the functioning of the legal systems; all of which are…”
Social innovation in emerging economies: A National Systems of Innovation based approach (2017, background): “The second finding highlights that, in the case of emerging economies, social innovation has the capacity to act as a catalyst to reduce institutional asymmetries (Williams & Vorley, 2015) and overcome institutional voids (Khanna & Palepu, 1997).”
Informal Entrepreneurship in Developing Economies: The Impacts of Starting up Unregistered on firm Performance (2017, background): “…formal institutions to accommodate new domains of activity and fourth, there is formal institutional weakness and instability, manifested in a lack of capacity to enforce policies (Webb et al., 2009) and continuous changes in laws and regulations (Levitsky & Murillo, 2009; Williams & Vorley, 2015).”
Entrepreneurship in the Agricultural Sector: A Literature Review and Future Research Opportunities (2018, background): “New insights may be yielded regarding how the failure to align formal and informal reform may undermine entrepreneurship (Williams & Vorley, 2015), and how ‘‘institutional asymmetries’’ impact different generations of entrepreneurs by focusing on informal institutional change on younger compared to…”
Informal entrepreneurship and institutional theory: explaining the varying degrees of (in)formalization of entrepreneurs in Pakistan (2016, background): “…C.C.Williams@sheffield.ac.uk sector entrepreneurs as operating outside of formal institutional boundaries but within the boundaries of informal institutions (de Castro, Khavul, and Bruton 2014; Webb et al. 2009; Webb, Ireland, and Ketchen 2014; Welter and Smallbone 2011; Williams and Vorley 2014).”