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Informal Entrepreneurship: A Review And Prioritization Of Research Opportunities

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  • AMON SIMBA

    (Nottingham Business School, 50 Shakespeare Street, 8th Floor Newton Building, Room 819, Nottingham, NG1 4FQ, UK)

  • NATHANAEL OJONG

    (York University, 324 Founders College, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, Canada)

  • LÉO-PAUL DANA

    (ICD Business School Paris & LUT School of Business and Management, 6100 University Ave, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2, Canada)

Abstract

Although informal entrepreneurship has attracted attention from entrepreneurship scholars, it remains under-theorized. This systematic review critically analyses, evaluates and integrates data on informal entrepreneurship gathered from studies published in eight (8) leading entrepreneurship journals. Although this form of entrepreneurship is practiced across the globe, it is generally perceived as an activity occurring in the peripheries of mainstream economics and inferior to formal entrepreneurship. This review develops essential knowledge for entrepreneurship research by theorizing informal entrepreneurship as a potent process in business formation and it establishes a future research agenda.

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  • Amon Simba & Nathanael Ojong & Lã‰O-Paul Dana, 2023. "Informal Entrepreneurship: A Review And Prioritization Of Research Opportunities," Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 28(02), pages 1-24, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:jdexxx:v:28:y:2023:i:02:n:s1084946723500139
    DOI: 10.1142/S1084946723500139
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