Extracting Value from Their Environment: Some Observations on Pimping and Prostitution as Entrepreneurship

Smith, Robert; Christou, Maria L.

doi:10.1080/08276331.2009.10593443

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“…Following in the path of the classic study of entrepreneurs as people who do not always play by the rulebook (Collins et al, 1964), an emergent literature has begun to reveal the dark side of entrepreneurship. This has revealed how entrepreneurs sometimes not only participate in illegitimate activities (Armstrong, 2005;Fournier, 1998;Gottschalk, 2010;Gottschalk and Smith, 2011;Rehn and Taalas, 2004;Sköld and Rehn, 2007) but also how many engaged in criminal or illegitimate activity possess entrepreneurial attributes, such as drug-dealers (Bouchard and Dion, 2009;Frith and McElwee, 2008), prostitutes and pimps (Smith and Christou, 2009).…”

Section: Business Start-ups and The Informal Economy: A Review Of Thementioning

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Do small business start-ups test-trade in the informal economy? Evidence from a UK survey

Williams

Martínez

2014

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Abstract:The aim is to evaluate critically whether small businesses start-up in the informal economy and whether they do so to test-trade the viability of their businesses. Reporting a 2012 survey of 595 small business owners in the UK, 20% report trading informally when starting their business, 64% of whom asserted a main reason was to test its viability. Some 13% of all small businesses therefore start-up test-trading in the informal economy, although multivariate analysis shows that businesses started by men, with low current annual turnovers in particular sectors are significantly more likely to do so. Regional variations are not significant. The outcome is a call for not only similar studies in other countries to determine the proportion of enterprises that start up test-trading in the informal economy but also a discussion of the policy implications of this finding.

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Section: Business Start-ups and The Informal Economy: A Review Of Thementioning

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Do small business start-ups test-trade in the informal economy? Evidence from a UK survey

Williams

Martínez

2014

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“…The promotion of enterprise and entrepreneurship has tended to focus on business start up in the formal sector and, as a consequence, has paid little attention to the nature and types of illegal entrepreneurship, although Smith and Christou (2009) Williams (2009) Smith (2008) document enterprise activity that occurs at 'the margins.' Research into illegal entrepreneurship has sought to explore why certain groups and individuals, despite not fitting the conventional description of the entrepreneur, have managed to engage in enterprise and entrepreneurship.…”

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Theorising Illegal Rural Enterprise: Is everyone at it?

McElwee¹,

Smith²,

Somerville³

2011

International Journal of Rural Criminology

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Illegal entrepreneurship in the rural is under researched and scrutinised, yet it occupies a distinctive space in entrepreneurship practice in terms of how it is construed and how it is enacted. This is a theoretical paper which provides a conceptual framework for defining 'ideal types' of illegal rural enterprise activity in order to better frame the phenomenon. Four types of enterprise activity are provided which suggest how the activities of illegal entrepreneurship in the rural can be categorised. This article is valuable to researchers and policy makers in that the framework suggests diversity in illegal rural enterprises which can manifest differing motives and modes of operation.

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“…Even though there were several notable pioneering studies in the latter half of the 20 th century that pursued this approach towards entrepreneurship (Bhide and Stephenson, 1990;Kets de Vries, 1977;Kets de Vries and Manfred, 1985), this sub-stream of the entrepreneurship literature has begun to rapidly grow since the turn of the millennium. This burgeoning literature on the dark side of entrepreneurship has revealed that entrepreneurs participate in illegitimate activities (Armstrong, 2005;Fournier, 1998;Gottschalk, 2010;Gottschalk and Smith, 2011;Rehn and Taalas, 2004;Sköld and Rehn, 2007) and also how many who engage in criminal or illegitimate activity possess entrepreneurial attributes, such as drugdealers (Bouchard and Dion, 2009;Frith and McElwee, 2008), prostitutes and pimps (Smith and Christou, 2009).…”

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De-linking entrepreneurship from profit-motivated capitalism: some lessons from an English locality

Williams

2013

IJSEI

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The aim of this paper is to evaluate critically the widely-held normative view of the entrepreneur as a heroic icon of profit-motivated capitalism. To achieve this, a 2005 survey involving face-to-face interviews with 51 entrepreneurs in the English locality of Bassetlaw is reported. This displays that just 12 per cent of the entrepreneurs surveyed are engaged purely in profit-driven entrepreneurship in the legitimate economy. The vast majority of entrepreneurs do not pursue purely profit-driven goals and adopt social motives to varying degrees and/or operate wholly or partially beyond the legitimate economy. These results therefore display that entrepreneurship and the enterprise culture can no longer be assumed to be profit-motivated capitalist endeavour. Instead, its multiple forms are here argued to open up entrepreneurship to re-signification as demonstrative of the possibility of futures beyond legitimate profit-driven capitalism.

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Extracting Value from Their Environment: Some Observations on Pimping and Prostitution as Entrepreneurship

Cited by 53 publications

References 22 publications

Do small business start-ups test-trade in the informal economy? Evidence from a UK survey

Do small business start-ups test-trade in the informal economy? Evidence from a UK survey

Theorising Illegal Rural Enterprise: Is everyone at it?

De-linking entrepreneurship from profit-motivated capitalism: some lessons from an English locality

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