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No. 79: Rendering South Africa Undesirable: A Critique of Refugee and Informal Sector Policy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
To understand the policy environment within which refugees establish and operate their enterprises in South Africa’s informal sector, this report brings together two streams of policy analysis.
Crush, Jonathan   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Benefit Corporations: The Moral Legitimacy That Requires More Rules

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines why Italian for‐profit firms convert to Benefit Corporation status and how they navigate the ensuing hybridization. Survey data from 118 companies are interpreted through a pragmatic and moral legitimacy lens. Results show that the main trigger is pragmatic legitimacy: managers seek to strengthen trust with internal and ...
Laura Rocca   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Moral, the Informal Sector, and Unemployment [PDF]

open access: yes
While examining the macroeconomic effects of increased government control of the informal sector, this paper develops a two-sector general equilibrium model featuring matching frictions, and heterogeneous workers in terms of moral.
Kolm, Ann-Sofie, Larsen, Birthe
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An Integrative Model for Resilience Through Circular Business Models: Insights Using a Multilevel Perspective

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how circular business models (CBMs) can lead to resilience. Despite the increasing number of CBM studies, they have not fully addressed the need for resilience. As such, we employ a multilevel perspective to reveal the existing and potential relationships between CBMs and resilience under the sustainability umbrella.
Stephane Jedrzejczak   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Informal Sector: The Credit Market Channel [PDF]

open access: yes
We build a model of firms’ choice between formality and informality. Complying with costly registration procedures allows the firms to benefit from key public goods, enforcement of property rights and contracts, that make the participation in the formal ...
Stephane Straub
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Rethinking Business Practices: Harnessing Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Sustainable Strategies for Resilient Entrepreneurial Success

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Entrepreneurship is increasingly reframed beyond profit maximisation toward models that integrate cultural resilience, sustainability and socio‐ecological responsibility. This study examines how Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) and Sustainable Strategies (SS) jointly influence entrepreneurial success (ES), addressing a gap where culturally ...
Henry Adeyemi Aluko   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Survey and Assessment of Laws on the Informal Sector [PDF]

open access: yes
This study classifies the laws affecting the informal sector and assesses the extent of the empowerment of the sector based on the provisions in the laws that allow for organization, decision making mechanisms and transfer of power from the traditional ...
Macaranas, Bonifacio S.   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

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