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Explaining off-the-books entrepreneurship: a critical evaluation of competing perspectives

verfasst von: Colin C. Williams, Sara Nadin, Siobhan Newton, Peter Rodgers, Jan Windebank

Erschienen in: International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal | Ausgabe 3/2013

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The aim of this paper is to evaluate critically competing theoretical perspectives towards off-the-books entrepreneurship, namely the modernist perspective that depicts such endeavour as a leftover from a previous mode of accumulation, the romantic perspective that depicts it as a chosen alternative to the formal economy, the survivalist perspective that views it as a by-product of contemporary capitalism and survival practice for those marginalised from the circuits of the modern economy, and the social actor perspective that views off-the-books entrepreneurship as chosen for social, redistributive, political or identity reasons. To do this, a 2005/6 survey involving face-to-face interviews with 102 off-the-books entrepreneurs in Moscow is analysed. No single theorisation is found to be universally applicable to all Muscovite off-the-books entrepreneurs. Instead, all are found to be valid in relation to different populations of off-the-books entrepreneurs, and only by combining and using them all is it asserted to be feasible to achieve a finer-grained more nuanced explanation of the complex and heterogeneous character of off-the-books entrepreneurship.

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Titel: Explaining off-the-books entrepreneurship: a critical evaluation of competing perspectives
verfasst von: Colin C. Williams
Sara Nadin
Siobhan Newton
Peter Rodgers
Jan Windebank
Publikationsdatum: 01.09.2013
Verlag: Springer US
Erschienen in: International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal / Ausgabe 3/2013
Print ISSN: 1554-7191
Elektronische ISSN: 1555-1938
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11365-011-0185-0

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