Shades of grey: How do informal firms navigate between macro and meso institutional environments?

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 75-94

  De Castro, Julio O ^a   Khavul, Susanna ^b   Bruton, Garry D ^c  

^a IE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^c TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emerging market; Entrepreneurship; Informality; Institutional environments

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897656973     PISSN: 19324391     EISSN: 1932443X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sej.1172     Document Type: Article

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