Theorising entrepreneurship in the informal sector in urban

This article evaluates critically the competing explanations for informal sector entrepreneurship that read such endeavours to result from either ‘exclusion’ from state benefits and the circuits of the modern economy or the voluntary ‘exit’ of workers from formal institutions. Reporting evidence fro...

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Main Author: Williams, Colin C
Other Authors: Youssef, Youssef.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Journals of Entrepreneurship 2015
Online Access:http://library.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui/handle/123456789/2258
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