The Hidden Enterprise Culture
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The Hidden Enterprise Culture
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Author : Colin C. Williams
language : en
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Release Date : 2008-01-01
The Hidden Enterprise Culture written by Colin C. Williams and has been published by Edward Elgar Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-01 with Business & Economics categories.
This book will be an excellent primer for policy makers wishing to understand the nature and contradictory significance of the underground economy and needing to design suitably subtle policy responses to it. Roger Lee, Growth and Change The Hidden Enterprise Culture is a top pick for any economist or academician interested in this field, as well as for any underground entrepreneur who wants to make their enterprise lawful with the fewest possible legal complications. Midwest Book Review Strongly recommended for policy makers and students of business. Global Business Review Portraying how entrepreneurs often start out conducting some or all of their trade on an off-the-books basis and how many continue to do so once they become established, this book provides the first detailed account of the vast and ubiquitous hidden enterprise culture existing in the interstices of western economies. Until now, the role of the underground economy in enterprise creation, entrepreneurship and small business development has been largely ignored despite its widespread prevalence and importance. In contrast to much of the previous literature that views the underground economy as low-paid, exploitative sweatshop work that should be deterred, this book takes a fresh, more positive perspective that considers the underground economy as a hidden enterprise culture. Colin C. Williams prescribes the means by which western governments can best harness this hidden culture of enterprise. He outlines detailed policy initiatives that seek to assist business ventures in setting up on a formal footing, and aim to encourage underground enterprises and entrepreneurs to make the transition into the realm of legitimacy. This book provides a lucid guide as to how the hidden culture of enterprise can be brought into the open. As such, it will prove invaluable to a wide-ranging audience including scholars and students of business studies, entrepreneurship, management, economics and regional science.
The Hidden Enterprise Culture
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language : en
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Release Date : 2006
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Harnessing The Hidden Enterprise Culture Of Advanced Economies
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Author : Colin Williams
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Harnessing The Hidden Enterprise Culture Of Advanced Economies written by Colin Williams and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with categories.
Purpose - In the majority (third) world, informal employment has been long viewed as an asset to be harnessed rather than a hindrance to development. The purpose of this paper is to show how a similar perspective is starting to be embraced in advanced economies and investigates the implications for public policy of this re-reading. Design/methodology/approach - Documents the shifts in how informal employment in western economies is conceptualised in both the academic literature and public policy. Findings - This paper reveals that the representation of informal employment as an exploitative, low-paid sweatshop realm is being replaced with a depiction of such work as a hidden enterprise culture that needs to be harnessed. Evaluating how this might be achieved, the need for a shift in public policy away from a deterrence approach and towards an approach that combines deterrents with enabling initiatives to pull this hidden enterprise culture into the formal economy is identified. Specific enabling measures to achieve this in the context of advanced economies are then discussed. Practical implications - This paper displays how western governments can harness the hidden enterprise culture by setting out specific initiatives to enable its transfer into the formal economy. Originality/value - This paper provides one of the first attempts to re-read informal employment as a hidden enterprise culture and to evaluate its implications for public policy.
The Hidden Enterprise Culture Of Moscow
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Author : Colin Williams
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
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Even though entrepreneurs are commonly depicted as risk-takers, little evaluation has occurred of whether they weigh up the costs of being caught and the level of punishments, and engage in off-the-books working practices. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the degree to which entrepreneurs engage in such off-the-books work. Reporting a survey conducted in Moscow during late 2005 and early 2006 of 81 entrepreneurs (defined here as individuals starting-up an enterprise in the past three years), just 3.7 per cent are found to operate on a wholly legitimate basis. The remaining 96.3 per cent have not registered their business, have no license to trade and conduct all of their trade on an off-the books basis. The outcome is a call to move beyond the wholesome and virtuous ideal-type of legitimate super heroes that pervades textbook depictions of entrepreneurs and towards a fuller understanding of the lived realities of entrepreneurship.
Theorising The Hidden Enterprise Culture
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Author : Colin Williams
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Theorising The Hidden Enterprise Culture written by Colin Williams and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with categories.
This paper evaluates critically competing theories that variously represent entrepreneurship in the shadow economy as a residue from a previous mode of production (modernisation theory), a survival strategy for those marginalised from the circuits of the modern economy (structuralist theory), a voluntarily chosen endeavour pursued due to over-regulation in the legitimate economy (neo-liberal theory) or a practice chosen for social, redistributive, resistance or identity reasons (post-structuralist theory). Reporting evidence from 861 face-to-face interviews in English localities, it is shown that no one theory is universally applicable. Instead, all are revealed to be valid with regard to various forms of shadow entrepreneurship, and only by integrating them is it possible to develop a finer-grained more inclusive comprehension of this multi-faceted and complex hidden enterprise culture.
Harnessing The Hidden Enterprise Culture
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Author : Colin Williams
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
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PurposeProviding support to off-the-books business start-ups to help them make the transition to legitimacy could be a novel and effective method of creating new legitimate business ventures. The aim of this paper is to advance understanding of why some business start-ups operate off-the-books so as to explore how public policy might facilitate their transition towards formalisation. Design/methodology/approachTo do this, a survey is reported of 120 business start-ups in West Cornwall, of which 48 were operating wholly or partially off-the-books. FindingsThis study inductively reveals that entrepreneurs' rationales for trading off-the-books and the consequent barriers to formalisation differ according to whether the business start-up is wholly off-the-books, a registered business start-up conducting a portion of their trade off-the-books with no intention of further formalising, or a registered business start-up in transition to legitimacy. The outcome is that policy measures to facilitate formalisation need to be tailored to tackle the varying reasons for each type of business start-up trading off-the-books.Research limitations/implicationsGiven the limited data, more extensive research across varying populations is required to evaluate the wider validity of the reasons for off-the-books trading of these different types of business start-up.Practical ImplicationsIt reveals that the support required to help entrepreneurs to make the transition to legitimacy needs to vary according to the degree to which their venture presently operates off-the-books and whether they display any intention to move towards formalisation. Originality/value of paperThe first paper to identify the reasons business start-ups trade off-the-books and the different resultant policy measures required to support their formalisation.
Tackling The Hidden Enterprise Culture
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Author : Colin Williams
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
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It is now recognized that many entrepreneurs operate wholly or partially in the informal economy. Harnessing this hidden enterprise culture by facilitating its formalization is therefore a potentially effective and innovative means of promoting economic development and growth. To start evaluating how this might be achieved, the aim of this paper is to understand entrepreneurs' motives for operating in the informal economy so as to identify the public policy interventions required to facilitate the formalization of this hidden enterprise culture. Reporting a survey of 51 nascent entrepreneurs in North Nottinghamshire, of which 43 were operating in the informal economy, the finding is that entrepreneurs' rationales for working informally differ according to both whether they operate wholly in the informal economy or have registered enterprises but trade partially off-the-books, as well as whether they view themselves as on a journey towards formalization or not. Different policy measures are therefore required to tackle each type of informal entrepreneurship. The outcome is a tentative call for a more nuanced and bespoke policy approach for tackling the different kinds of informal entrepreneurship that comprise the hidden enterprise culture.
Spatial Variations In The Hidden Enterprise Culture
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Author : Colin Williams
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Spatial Variations In The Hidden Enterprise Culture written by Colin Williams and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with categories.
Despite the growing recognition that many businesses start-up trading on a partially or wholly off-the-books basis, there has been little investigation of whether the prevalence and character of this hidden enterprise culture varies spatially. The aim of this paper is to start to fill that gap. Reporting the results of face-to-face interviews conducted in affluent and deprived urban and rural English localities with 91 early-stage entrepreneurs and 81 established self-employed, it is shown that in all localities wholly legitimate businesses are just the tip of the iceberg and that beneath the surface is a large hidden enterprise culture. However, the preponderance of early-stage entrepreneurs and the established self-employed to trade off-the-books is greater in some locality-types than others. Not only do early-stage entrepreneurs and the established self-employed more commonly trade off-the-books in deprived and rural localities, but they are also more likely to trade wholly off-the-books and therefore not be even recognized as existing by official data sources. The implication is that deprived and rural communities are more enterprising and entrepreneurial than is currently recognized and consequently, that legitimizing this hidden enterprise culture could be an important means of promoting enterprise and economic development in such communities. The paper concludes by briefly reviewing how this might be achieved.
Corporate Culture Team Culture
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Author : Jacalyn Carol Sherriton
language : en
Publisher: Amacom Books
Release Date : 1997
Corporate Culture Team Culture written by Jacalyn Carol Sherriton and has been published by Amacom Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Business & Economics categories.
Corporate Culture/Team Culture is the first book to address in depth the issue of changing the organizational culture to support team effectiveness. It also presents a practical, proven model for achieving such transformation, and illustrates the process with three extended case studies and numerous additional examples of the model in action. To create high-performing teams, the authors say, we must first acknowledge that teamwork doesn't come naturally. While individuals and organizations are trained to pay lip service to the value of working together, this approach actually clashes with cultures that reward "looking out for number 1." Add in the turf battles that still smolder in most workplaces - especially in companies that have recently merged or downsized - and teams can become powder kegs. Yet, as the book's examples reveal, teaming is a vital way to structure work and meet today's business challenges. Whether your organization is fine-tuning its team efforts or just starting out, Corporate Culture/Team Culture shows you how to succeed by tackling cultural issues from the ground up.
Entrepreneurship And The Informal Economy
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Author : Colin Williams
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Entrepreneurship And The Informal Economy written by Colin Williams and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with categories.
How many entrepreneurs start-up their business ventures conducting some or all of their trade in the informal economy? The aim of this paper is to answer this key question that has been seldom addressed using data from 600 face-to-face structured interviews conducted in Ukraine in late 2005 and early 2006. Analyzing the 331 entrepreneurs identified (i.e., individuals starting-up an enterprise in the past three years), just 10 percent operate on a wholly legitimate basis, while 39 percent have a license to trade and/or have registered their business but conduct a portion of their trade in the informal economy, and 51 percent operate unregistered enterprises and conduct all of their trade on an off-the-books basis. Given that some 90 percent of all business start-ups operate partially or wholly in the informal economy, and that 40 percent of all respondents depend on the informal economy as either their principal or secondary contributor to their livelihoods, the paper concludes by considering the wider implications of these findings both for further research and public policy.