Connecting poverty to purchase in informal markets

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 37-55

  London, Ted ^a,b   Esper, Heather ^a   Grogan Kaylor, Andrew ^a   Kistruck, Geoffrey M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Base of the pyramid; Informal economy; Informal markets; Institutional environment; Poverty; Poverty alleviation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897610910     PISSN: 19324391     EISSN: 1932443X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sej.1173     Document Type: Article

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