Williams, C.C. and Nadin, S. (2012) Re-thinking informal entrepreneurship: commercial or social entrepreneurs? International Journal of Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation, 1 (3). 295 - 309 . ISSN 2043-8257
Abstract
This paper evaluates critically the assumption that entrepreneurs who start-up their business ventures operating wholly or partially off-the-books are engaged in commercial entrepreneurship. Reporting evidence from a 2005–2006 survey involving face-to-face interviews with 298 informal entrepreneurs in Ukraine, the finding is that they are not all commercially-driven. Instead, these informal entrepreneurs range from purely rational economic actors who pursue for-profit logics through to purely social entrepreneurs who pursue solely social logics, with the majority somewhere in the middle of this spectrum combining both for-profit and social rationales. The result is a call for a more nuanced understanding of the heterogeneous logics of informal entrepreneurs that recognises the existence of social entrepreneurs in the realm of informal entrepreneurship.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2012 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. . Reproduced in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | informal sector; shadow economy; hidden economy; underground economy; commercial entrepreneurship; social entrepreneurship; enterprise culture; post-socialist economies; Ukraine. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Management School (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 23 Jun 2015 10:36 |
Last Modified: | 23 Jun 2015 10:36 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJSEI.2012.047632 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Inderscience |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1504/IJSEI.2012.047632 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:87307 |