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We provide a heuristic framework that can be used as a lens for understanding the arguments being presented in the papers which comprise this special issue on sustainable development and environmental issues in Great Britain. This framework can also be used as an introduction to the wider literature on sustainable development because it is designed to bring greater clarity to this large, diverse and rapidly expanding field of enquiry populated by heterogeneous discourses, multiple approaches and a variety of recommendations as to the ways forward.

To advance understanding of the entrepreneurship process in developing economies, this article evaluates whether registered enterprises that initially avoid the cost of registration, and focus their resources on overcoming other liabilities of newness, lay a stronger foundation for subsequent growth. Analyzing World Bank Enterprise Survey data across 127 countries, and controlling for other firm performance determinants, registered enterprises that started up unregistered and spent longer operating unregistered are revealed to have significantly higher subsequent annual sales, employment, and productivity growth rates compared with those that registered from the outset. The theoretical and policy implications are then discussed.

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This paper explains the undeclared economy in general, and envelope wages more particularly, from an institutional perspective as resulting from the asymmetry between the codified laws and regulations of the formal institutions and the unwritten socially shared rules of informal institutions. Reporting a 2013 Eurobarometer survey of the prevalence of envelope wages across 10 Central and East European countries, a strong association is revealed between the prevalence of envelope wage payments and the degree of asymmetry of formal and informal institutions at both the individual-and country-level. The paper then explores the implications for theorising and tackling undeclared work practices.