through these stages. Data are used from the 2007 “Flash Eurobarometer Survey on Entrepreneurship”, covering 27 European …

In recent decades, the field of entrepreneurship studies has become increasingly interested in the relationship between … entrepreneurship and the informal economy. This paper reviews this burgeoning sub-field of entrepreneurship studies that recognizes how … such informal entrepreneurship, the characteristics of informal entrepreneurs and the motives underpinning participation in …

women's experiences in the informal sector and that not all informal entrepreneurship by women in developing nations is low …

The starting point of this paper is the recognition that the entrepreneurship literature is dominated by a normative … entrepreneurial endeavour as the revered heroic figures normally associated with entrepreneurship, but also how this is not a weak …, necessity-driven, transient and disappearing form of entrepreneurship, but resilient, opportunity-driven and persistent. The …

Despite a widespread recognition in the mainstream entrepreneurship literature that many legitimate entrepreneurs do … not pursue purely profit-driven commercial goals, the small but burgeoning literature on entrepreneurship in the informal … commercial versus social entrepreneurship dichotomy will need to be transcended if the multifarious goals underpinning informal …

analysis highlights how the decision of entrepreneurship does not stand in isolation from other decisions and choices, is in … women entrepreneurship …

city, a group of entrepreneurs who have been conventionally depicted as largely driven by necessity into entrepreneurship … way of categorising types of entrepreneurship not only because motivations change over time but also because entrepreneurs … conventional either/or depiction of opportunity versus necessity entrepreneurship and towards a richer, more nuanced and dynamic …

This paper investigates the relationship between entrepreneurship and off-the-books work. Until now, although it has … between off-the-books work and entrepreneurship, the finding is that even though only a relatively small proportion of all off …-stage in discussions of entrepreneurship and enterprise development …