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International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal
Erschienen in: International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal 2/2014

01.06.2014

Evaluating the explanations for the informal economy in third world cities: some evidence from Koforidua in the eastern region of Ghana

verfasst von: Kwame Adom, Colin C. Williams

Erschienen in: International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal | Ausgabe 2/2014

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Abstract

This paper re-evaluates the explanations for informal work in third world cities. Until now, informal work has been theorized either as a residue (modernisation), by-product of contemporary capitalism conducted out of economic necessity (structuralism) or an alternative to formal work chosen due to either an over-burdensome state (neo-liberalism) or for social, redistributive, resistance or identity reasons (post-structuralism). Reporting a study of 80 households in Koforidua in Ghana, this paper finds that although its depiction as a residue is not valid, the other representations of the informal economy are each valid in relation to different types of informal work and varying populations in this third world city, and that only by combining them will a finer-grained and more comprehensive understanding of the diverse nature of the informal economy be achieved. The outcome is a call for more nuanced explanations of the informal economy in other contexts.
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Metadaten
Titel
Evaluating the explanations for the informal economy in third world cities: some evidence from Koforidua in the eastern region of Ghana
verfasst von
Kwame Adom
Colin C. Williams
Publikationsdatum
01.06.2014
Verlag
Springer US
Erschienen in
International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal / Ausgabe 2/2014
Print ISSN: 1554-7191
Elektronische ISSN: 1555-1938
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11365-012-0224-5

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