Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Theorising entrepreneurship in the informal sector -- An institutionalist … perspective -- Determinants of institutional asymmetry -- Informal sector entrepreneurship in global perspective -- Prevalence of … informal entrepreneurship -- Impacts of informal entrepreneurship -- Reasons for informal entrepreneurship -- Tackling informal …

Using state-level data on productive and unproductive entrepreneurship, shadow economy size, and public official … (higher) levels of informal economic activity. Additionally, I aim to connect entrepreneurship, shadow economy size, and …

western economies. Instead, it has been widely assumed that those engaged in entrepreneurship in the informal sector are those … entrepreneurship is developed that replaces such either/or thinking by a both/and approach that depicts how the majority are … re-reading of the nature of informal entrepreneurship in western economies …

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 …

entrepreneurs and towards a fuller understanding of the lived realities of entrepreneurship …