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Theorising Entrepreneurship in the Informal Sector in Urban Brazil: A Product of Exit or Exclusion?
- Source :
- The Journal of Entrepreneurship. 24:148-168
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2015.
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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.
- Subjects :
- Economics and Econometrics
Labour economics
Entrepreneurship
Informal sector
Strategy and Management
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Modern economy
Globe
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State (polity)
Turnover
Economics
medicine
Product (category theory)
Business and International Management
Micro-enterprise
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Details
- ISSN :
- 09730745 and 09713557
- Volume :
- 24
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The Journal of Entrepreneurship
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........718d0d719c7e75acc29af89fff23ade4