Williams, C.C. and Youssef, Y. (2015) Theorising Entrepreneurship in the Informal Sector in Urban Brazil: A Product of Exit or Exclusion? Journal of Entrepreneurship, 24 (2). pp. 148-168. ISSN 0971-3557
Abstract
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 from a 2003 survey in urban Brazil, it is revealed that similar proportions of informal sector entrepreneurs explain their participation to result from their involuntary exclusion and voluntary exit from the formal economy. The outcome is a call to shift from an either/or to a both/and approach when explaining informal sector entrepreneurship and for wider research on the relative weightings given to exit and exclusion in different contexts so as to develop a socio-spatially contingent explanation for participation in informal sector entrepreneurship across the globe.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2015 Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Journal of Entrepreneurship. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | entrepreneurship; micro-enterprise; small businesses; enterprise culture; informal sector; underground economy; shadow economy; Brazil |
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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: | 03 Feb 2016 14:41 |
Last Modified: | 14 Mar 2016 09:29 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0971355715586897 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/0971355715586897 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:93778 |