This collection of essays explores several different aspects of entrepreneurship in informal economies. The essays are organized into seven sections that examine the determinants of informal
entrepreneurship, the financial aspects, organizational forms, institutional environments, sociocultural contexts, and informal entrepreneurship as a mechanism of over-all economic development.
The informal economy encompasses those hard to measure networks of production and exchange, often thriving in the developed world, that are not the subject of conventional economics. To this
end, most of the essays are looking at data from the Africa, SE Asia, Central and South America. There is no editorial introduction, but the final section includes some concluding remarks by
one of the contributors on the policy implications of informal entrepreneurship. The contributors are from around the world, drawing on academic backgrounds in business, sociology and social
science, as well as entrepreneurial and business management. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
