Informal entrepreneurship (IE) has received increased recognition because of its theoreticaldistinctiveness and practical relevance. However, the burgeoning literature on IE is difficult tonavigate, due to its rapid growth across different disciplines. Through an integrative review, weintroduce a novel typology of informal entrepreneurs that captures their heterogeneity acrossvarious contexts. We point out a dynamic perspective of IE, consisting of three pathways—thereactive formalizing, theproactive formalizing, and theinformalizing pathways—along which informalentrepreneurs move, acquiring or foregoing regulative legitimacy. Our review extends the theoryon IE, outlines promising research avenues, and suggests relevant practical implicatio...
Over the past decade or so, two competing theoretical perspectives have arisen that explain particip...
The aim of this paper is to evaluate four competing theoretical perspectives that explain cross-nati...
This paper analyzes opportunity entrepreneurship through the interplay between formal and informal i...
Informal entrepreneurship (IE) has received increased recognition because of its theoreticaldistinct...
Over a decade ago, scholars in different domains of knowledge such as strategic management, economic...
Unlike their formal counterparts, informal entrepreneurial firms (IEFs), or unregistered businesses,...
This paper evaluates critically the assumption that entrepreneurs who start-up their business ventu...
Rather than portray formal and informal sector entrepreneurs as discrete groups, an emergent scholar...
Despite its prominence, scale and dynamism, the informal economy is viewed as remnant of a tradition...
A focus on supply-side economics and on factors determining economic growth is prominent in seeking ...
In recent decades, the field of entrepreneurship studies has become increasingly interested in the r...
The informal economy (IE) has attracted the attention of policy makers, practitioners and academics ...
The objective of this paper is to justify the rationales of methodology that is used to investigate ...
The informal economy remains understudied and a misunderstood phenomenon. This dissertation examines...
There is a conventional notion on informal workers exhibiting entrepreneurial qualities to be necess...
Over the past decade or so, two competing theoretical perspectives have arisen that explain particip...
The aim of this paper is to evaluate four competing theoretical perspectives that explain cross-nati...
This paper analyzes opportunity entrepreneurship through the interplay between formal and informal i...
Informal entrepreneurship (IE) has received increased recognition because of its theoreticaldistinct...
Over a decade ago, scholars in different domains of knowledge such as strategic management, economic...
Unlike their formal counterparts, informal entrepreneurial firms (IEFs), or unregistered businesses,...
This paper evaluates critically the assumption that entrepreneurs who start-up their business ventu...
Rather than portray formal and informal sector entrepreneurs as discrete groups, an emergent scholar...
Despite its prominence, scale and dynamism, the informal economy is viewed as remnant of a tradition...
A focus on supply-side economics and on factors determining economic growth is prominent in seeking ...
In recent decades, the field of entrepreneurship studies has become increasingly interested in the r...
The informal economy (IE) has attracted the attention of policy makers, practitioners and academics ...
The objective of this paper is to justify the rationales of methodology that is used to investigate ...
The informal economy remains understudied and a misunderstood phenomenon. This dissertation examines...
There is a conventional notion on informal workers exhibiting entrepreneurial qualities to be necess...
Over the past decade or so, two competing theoretical perspectives have arisen that explain particip...
The aim of this paper is to evaluate four competing theoretical perspectives that explain cross-nati...
This paper analyzes opportunity entrepreneurship through the interplay between formal and informal i...