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Drawing inspiration from a burgeoning corpus of scholars who have begun to question

the narrative of impending market hegemony, this paper seeks to further advance this

emergent ‘diverse economies’ literature by constructing a conceptual framework for

representing the multiple labour practices in economies. Transcending the simplistic

market/non-market dichotomy, this conceptualises multiple kinds of labour existing along

a spectrum from market-oriented to non-market oriented practices, which is cross-cut by

another spectrum ranging from wholly monetised to wholly non-monetised practices. The

resultant portrayal of a plurality of labour practices that seamlessly merge into each other

is then applied to understanding the types …

Jde 2012 Ghana Motives.Pdf, Colin C. Williams Dec 2011

In recent years, there has been growing recognition in the entrepreneurship literature that many

entrepreneurs operate in the informal economy and that not all these informal entrepreneurs are doing

so out of economic necessity and because of a lack of choice. Instead, it has been asserted that some of

these informal entrepreneurs choose to exit the formal economy and trade on an off-the-books basis

more as a matter of choice. However, until now most research displaying this has been conducted in

advanced western and post-socialist economies. Little has been written on whether this is also the case

in third (majority) …

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