Street Entrepreneurship Research Articles

Joutia: street vendor entrepreneurship and the informal economy of information and communication technologies in Morocco1

This paper provides an ethnographic and cultural analysis of the ‘informal sector’ in Morocco. In this age of globalisation, no firm can afford to ignore the vibrant informal sector that makes up the bulk of GDP in many developing economies. And yet, the informal sector is routinely misunderstood and mythologised as ‘pimps, drug dealers, counterfeiters and pirates’, and is particularly despised by the high tech industry. Based on fieldwork, the authors' goal is to examine this dynamic economic phenomenon and to dispel a few myths by providing an ethnographic description of one exemplary case. While the study focuses on the experience of an articulate entrepreneur, who happens to operate in the highly dynamic underground economy in new, used and black market information and communications technologies, it speaks to such themes as entrepreneurship, global products flows, economic relations, and the implications of the informal sector for global flows of goods and services.

Immigration and street entrepreneurship in Alicante, Spain

Within the theoretical framework of Entrepreneurship Studies, this article investigates the thriving immigrant-based street market system in Alicante, Spain. Entrepreneurship research clearly has illustrated that the success of legitimate entrepreneurial endeavours is determined by a complex variety of factors that involve supply and demand, risk vs. return and opportunity vs. need, among others. Based upon field observations, interviews and a detailed survey conducted during the summers of 2005 and 2006, our investigation of the small business street vendor system in Alicante illustrates that these entrepreneurial factors also define and affect the illegal enterprises established by a largely undocumented immigrant population. Despite the apparent simplicity of the street vendor network, both the wholesale and retail systems in Alicante are highly complex and structured, and they work to minimise risk to street entrepreneurs while providing greater economic returns to a large and highly diverse population.

FAKTOR-FAKTOR YANG BERKAITAN DENGAN PERILAKU KEWIRAUSAHAAN PEDAGANG KAKILIMA (Kasus Pedagang Kakilima Pemakai gerobak Usaha Makanan Di Kota Bogor)

The study was carried out in Bogor in June through September 2005. The objectives of the study were : (1) to identify the external and internal factors of street food peddler, (2) to identify entrepreneurship behavior of the street food peddler, and (3) to analyze the correlation between the internal and the external factors and entrepreneurship behavior of the street food peddler. The study was a descriptive correlational method. Data were collected using a structured questionnaire. Data were analyzed using Spearman Rank correlation. The results of the study showed that: (1) The internal and the external factors were significantly correlated with the street food peddler entrepreneurship behavior, (2) The street food peddler entrepreneurship behavior were categorized high and medium.