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Entrepreneurship in the Informal Sector - An Institutional Perspective (Paperback)
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Entrepreneurship in the Informal Sector - An Institutional Perspective (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Entrepreneurship
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How many businesses start-ups conduct some or all of their trade
'off-the-books'? And how many enterprises continue to do some of
their work off-the-books once they are more established? What
should be done about them? Should governments adopt ever more
punitive measures to eradicate them? Or should we recognise this
hidden enterprise culture and attempt to harness it? If so, how can
this be done? What measures can be taken to ensure that businesses
start-up in a proper manner? And what can be done to help those
enterprises and entrepreneurs currently working off-the-books to
legitimise their businesses? The aim of this book is to advance a
new way of answering these questions. Drawing inspiration from
institutional theory, informal sector entrepreneurship is explained
as resulting from the asymmetry between the codified laws and
regulations of a society's formal institutions and the norms,
values and beliefs that comprise a society's informal institutions.
The argument is that if the norms, values and beliefs of
entrepreneurs (i.e., their individual morality) were wholly aligned
with the codified laws and regulations (i.e., state morality),
there would be no informal sector entrepreneurship. However,
because the individual morality of entrepreneurs differs from state
morality, such as due to their lack of trust in government and the
rule of law, the result is the prevalence of informal sector
entrepreneurship. The greater the degree of institutional
asymmetry, the higher is the propensity to engage in informal
sector entrepreneurship. This book provides evidence to show that
this is the case both at the individual- and country-level and then
discusses how this can be overcome. .
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