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Colin C. Williams

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Management School
University of Sheffield

Sheffield, United Kingdom
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Working papers

  1. Williams, Colin C., & Lapeyre, Frédéric,, 2017. "Dependent self-employment trends, challenges and policy responses in the EU," ILO Working Papers 994974993402676, International Labour Organization.
  2. Abbi M Kedir & Meryem Duygun Fethi & Colin C Williams, 2011. "Evaluating tax evasion in the European Union: a case study of the prevalence and character of ‘envelope wage’ payments," Discussion Papers in Economics 11/33, Division of Economics, School of Business, University of Leicester, revised Jun 2011.
  3. Williams, C. & Bewley, R., 1991. "The Transmission of Price Information at Queensland Cattle Auctions," Papers 91-10, New South Wales - School of Economics.

Articles

  1. Mara Mațcu-Zaharia & Ioana Alexandra Horodnic & Colin C. Williams & George Cristian Nistor, 2024. "Self-Employed Workers and the Achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: An Overview of Their Social Benefit Entitlements across 31 European Countries," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 16(7), pages 1-20, March.
  2. Arezzo, Maria Felice & Horodnic, Ioana A. & Williams, Colin C. & Guagnano, Giuseppina, 2024. "Measuring participation in undeclared work in Europe using survey data: A method for resolving social desirability bias," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 91(C).
  3. Ioana Alexandra Horodnic & Colin C. Williams & Andreea Apetrei & Mara Mațcu & Adrian V. Horodnic, 2023. "Services purchase from the informal economy using digital platforms," The Service Industries Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 43(11-12), pages 854-874, September.
  4. Ceyhun Elgin & Colin Williams & Gamze Öz Yalaman, 2023. "Evaluating the effectiveness of labor market interventions on reducing the impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic," Review of Development Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 27(1), pages 352-374, February.
  5. Ioana Alexandra Horodnic & Colin C. Williams & Rodica Ianole-Cãlin & Adrian V. Horodnic, 2023. "Exploring the illegal practice of under-reporting wages in the construction industry: some lessons from Romania," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 55(26), pages 2978-2992, June.
  6. Ioana Alexandra Horodnic & Colin C. Williams & Adriana Manolică & Cristina Teodora Roman & Gabriela Boldureanu, 2023. "Employer perspectives on undeclared work in the service sector: impacts and policy responses," The Service Industries Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 43(5-6), pages 358-377, April.
  7. Maria Felice Arezzo & Colin C. Williams & Ioana Alexandra Horodnic & Giuseppina Guagnano, 2023. "Revisiting tax morale: evaluating the acceptability of business- and individual-level non-compliance on participation in undeclared work," International Journal of Manpower, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 44(5), pages 952-966, March.
  8. Colin C. Williams & Aysegul Kayaoglu, 2023. "Revisiting the undeclared service economy as a dual labour market: lessons from a 2019 Eurobarometer survey," The Service Industries Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 43(13-14), pages 940-961, October.
  9. Williams Colin C. & Gashi Ardiana, 2022. "Formal Institutional Failings and Informal Employment: Evidence from the Western Balkans," South East European Journal of Economics and Business, Sciendo, vol. 17(2), pages 83-95, December.
  10. Ioana Alexandra Horodnic & Colin C. Williams & Oana Țugulea & Iuliana Claudia Stoian Bobâlcă, 2022. "Exploring the Demand-Side of the Informal Economy during the COVID-19 Restrictions: Lessons from Iași, Romania," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(12), pages 1-16, June.
  11. Ceyhun Elgin & Colin C. Williams & Gamze Oz‐Yalaman & Abdullan Yalaman, 2022. "Fiscal stimulus packages to COVID‐19: The role of informality," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 34(4), pages 861-879, May.
  12. Ioana Alexandra Horodnic & Colin C. Williams, 2022. "Tackling undeclared work in the European Union: beyond the rational economic actor approach," Policy Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 43(1), pages 21-55, January.
  13. Wolfe Marcus & Richter Jack I. & Patel Pankaj C. & Williams Colin, 2022. "Are the Liabilities of Newness and Smallness the Same for Male and Female Informal Entrepreneurs? Evidence from Brazil," Entrepreneurship Research Journal, De Gruyter, vol. 12(3), pages 441-470, July.
  14. Ioana Alexandra HORODNIC & Colin C. WILLIAMS & Iuliana M. CHIÈšAC, 2022. "Evaluating the relationship between sustainable development, localisation and the informal economy: evidence from Romania," Eastern Journal of European Studies, Centre for European Studies, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, vol. 13, pages 54-76, December.
  15. Colin C Williams, 2021. "Policy Approaches Toward Informal Sector Entrepreneurship: An Overview," Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 26(02), pages 1-25, June.
  16. Colin Williams & Besnik Krasniqi, 2021. "Beyond the formal/informal employment dualism: evaluating individual- and country-level variations in the commonality of quasi-formal employment," International Journal of Social Economics, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 48(9), pages 1290-1308, May.
  17. Colin C Williams, 2021. "Evaluating Entrepreneurs’ Motives For Participating In The Informal Sector In Europe," Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 26(01), pages 1-21, March.
  18. Cristian Incaltarau & Adrian V. Horodnic & Colin C. Williams & Liviu Oprea, 2021. "Institutional Determinants of Informal Payments for Health Services: An Exploratory Analysis across 117 Countries," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(23), pages 1-19, November.
  19. Colin C Williams, 2021. "Tackling Undeclared Self-Employment in South-East Europe: from Deterrents to Preventative Policy Measures," Economic Alternatives, University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria, issue 2, pages 280-298, July.
  20. Williams, Colin C. & Horodnic, Ioana Alexandra, 2021. "Tackling undeclared work in Central and East Europe: an evaluation of competing public sector management approaches," Journal of East European Management Studies, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, vol. 26(3), pages 469-490.
  21. Colin C. Williams & Aysegul Kayaoglu, 2021. "Explaining the supply of home repair and renovation services in the undeclared economy: lessons from Europe," Construction Management and Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 39(4), pages 356-368, April.
  22. Ioana Alexandra Horodnic & Colin C. Williams & Alexandru Maxim & Iuliana Claudia Stoian & Oana Carmen Țugulea & Adrian V. Horodnic, 2021. "Knowing and Unknowing Purchases of Undeclared Healthcare Goods and Services: The Role of Vertical and Horizontal Trust," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(21), pages 1-14, November.
  23. Colin C. Williams & Slavko Bezeredi, 2021. "Explaining informal entrepreneurship in Croatia: a social actor approach," International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 42(3), pages 348-368.
  24. Adrian V. Horodnic & Colin C. Williams & Răzvan Ionuț Drugă & Cristian Incaltarau, 2021. "Informal Payments by Patients in Central and Eastern Europe during the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Institutional Perspective," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(20), pages 1-17, October.
  25. Colin Williams & Ardiana Gashi, 2021. "Evaluating the wage differential between the formal and informal economy: a gender perspective," Journal of Economic Studies, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 49(4), pages 735-750, May.
  26. Ardiana Gashi & Colin C Williams, 2021. "Beyond The Marginalization Thesis: An Evaluation Of The Prevalence, Character And Motives Of Informal Sector Entrepreneurs In Kosovo," Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 26(01), pages 1-19, March.
  27. Ioana Alexandra Horodnic & Colin C. Williams, 2021. "Cash wage payments in transition economies: Consequences of envelope wages," IZA World of Labor, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), pages 280-280, October.
  28. Paraskevi Koufopoulou & Colin C. Williams & Athanassios Vozikis & Kyriakos Souliotis & Antonios Samprakos, 2021. "Estimating Shadow Economy Size in Greece 2000 - 2018: A Flexible MIMIC Approach," SPOUDAI Journal of Economics and Business, SPOUDAI Journal of Economics and Business, University of Piraeus, vol. 71(3-4), pages 23-47, July-Dece.
  29. Colin Williams, 2020. "An Institutional Theory of Tax Non- Compliance in Bulgaria: a Tax Morale Approach," Economic Alternatives, University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria, issue 1, pages 33-49, March.
  30. Colin C. Williams & Brunilda Kosta, 2020. "Evaluating The Impact Of Informal Sector Competitors On The Performance Of Formal Enterprises: Evidence From Bosnia And Herzegovina," Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 25(02), pages 1-15, June.
  31. Colin C. Williams & Kwame Adom & Ioana Alexandra Horodnic, 2020. "Determinants Of The Level Of Informalization Of Enterprises: Some Evidence From Accra, Ghana," Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 25(01), pages 1-24, March.
  32. Brunilda Kosta & Colin C Williams, 2020. "Evaluating The Effects Of The Informal Sector On The Growth Of Formal Sector Enterprises: Lessons From Italy," Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 25(03), pages 1-13, September.
  33. Colin C. Williams & Aysegul Kayaoglu, 2020. "COVID-19 and undeclared work: impacts and policy responses in Europe," The Service Industries Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 40(13-14), pages 914-931, October.
  34. Colin C. Williams, 2020. "Tackling Informal Entrepreneurship In East-Central Europe: From A Deterrence To Preventative Approach," Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 25(04), pages 1-20, December.
  35. Colin C. Williams, 2020. "Explaining the Variations in the Magnitude of Undeclared Work Across the 28 European Union Member States," Economic Alternatives, University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria, issue 2, pages 203-223, June.
  36. Colin Williams & Gamze Oz-Yalaman, 2020. "Explaining the informal economy in Western Europe: beyond a rational economic actor perspective," Journal of Economic Studies, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 48(5), pages 1084-1096, September.
  37. Colin C. Williams & Brunilda Kosta, 2020. "Evaluating The Implications Of Starting-Up Unregistered On Future Firm Performance: Evidence A 2019 Survey In Albania," Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 25(02), pages 1-17, June.
  38. Colin C. Williams & Adnan S. Efendic, 2020. "Evaluating the Relationship Between Migration and Participation in Undeclared Work: Lessons from Bosnia and Herzegovina," Economic Alternatives, University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria, issue 4, pages 592-606, December.
  39. Ioana Alexandra HORODNIC & Colin C WILLIAMS & Rodica IANOLE-CÄ‚LIN, 2020. "Does higher cash-in-hand income motivate young people to engage in under-declared employment?," Eastern Journal of European Studies, Centre for European Studies, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, vol. 11, pages 48-69, December.
  40. Colin C. Williams & Gamze Oz Yalaman & Abbi M. Kedir, 2020. "Evaluating Policy Approaches Towards Tackling Undeclared Work in the Czech Republic," Economic Alternatives, University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria, issue 3, pages 396-417, September.
  41. Williams Colin C. & Kayaoglu Aysegul, 2020. "The Coronavirus Pandemic and Europe’s Undeclared Economy: Impacts and a Policy Proposal," South East European Journal of Economics and Business, Sciendo, vol. 15(1), pages 80-92, June.
  42. Colin C. Williams & Slavko Bezeredi, 2020. "Evaluating the impacts on firm productivity of informal sector competitors: results of a business survey in South-Eastern Europe," International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 41(4), pages 524-538.
  43. Colin Williams, 2020. "Evaluating Public Administration Approaches towards Tax Non-Compliance in Europe," Administrative Sciences, MDPI, vol. 10(3), pages 1-15, July.
  44. Colin C Williams & Ioana Horodnic, 2020. "Tackling the Undeclared Economy," World Economics, World Economics, 1 Ivory Square, Plantation Wharf, London, United Kingdom, SW11 3UE, vol. 21(4), pages 23-50, October.
  45. Colin C. Williams & Abbi M. Kedir, 2020. "Evaluating the impact of registration on future firm performance in the Middle East and North Africa region: evidence from the World Bank Enterprise Survey," International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 41(4), pages 473-489.
  46. Besnik A. Krasniqi & Colin C. Williams, 2020. "Does informality help entrepreneurs achieve firm growth? evidence from a post-conflict economy," Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 33(1), pages 1581-1599, January.
  47. Colin C. Williams & Abbi M. Kedir, 2019. "Explaining cross-country variations in the prevalence of informal sector competitors: lessons from the World Bank Enterprise Survey," International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, Springer, vol. 15(3), pages 677-696, September.
  48. Gashi Ardiana & Williams Colin C., 2019. "Evaluating the Prevalence and Distribution of Unregistered Employment in Kosovo: Lessons from a 2017 Survey," South East European Journal of Economics and Business, Sciendo, vol. 14(1), pages 7-20, June.
  49. Colin C Williams & Slavko Bezeredi, 2019. "Explaining and tackling unregistered employment: evidence from an employers’ survey," Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 27(2-3), pages 173-189, September.
  50. Williams Colin C, 2019. "Explaining and tackling the informal economy: an evaluation of competing perspectives," Open Economics, De Gruyter, vol. 2(1), pages 63-75, January.
  51. Colin C. Williams & Brunilda Kosta, 2019. "Evaluating Institutional Theories Of Informal Sector Entrepreneurship: Some Lessons From Albania," Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 24(02), pages 1-17, June.
  52. Sana Ullah & Colin C. Williams & Babur Wasim Arif, 2019. "The Impacts Of Informality On Enterprise Innovation, Survival And Performance: Some Evidence From Pakistan," Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 24(03), pages 1-19, September.
  53. Peter Rodgers & Muhammad Shehryar Shahid & Colin C. Williams, 2019. "Reconceptualizing Informal Work Practices: Some Observations from an Ethnic Minority Community in Urban UK," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 43(3), pages 476-496, May.
  54. Paraskevi Koufopoulou & Colin C. Williams & Athanassios Vozikis & Kyriakos Souliotis, 2019. "Shadow Economy: Definitions, terms & theoretical considerations," Advances in Management and Applied Economics, SCIENPRESS Ltd, vol. 9(5), pages 1-3.
  55. Colin C. Williams & Bo Liu, 2019. "Explaining Variations In The Commonality Of Informal Sector Competition Across Latin American And The Caribbean Countries," Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 24(01), pages 1-21, March.
  56. Usman Ladan & Colin C. Williams, 2019. "Evaluating Theorizations Of Informal Sector Entrepreneurship: Some Lessons From Zamfara, Nigeria," Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 24(04), pages 1-18, December.
  57. Abbi M. Kedir & Colin Williams & Levent Altinay, 2018. "Services industries and the informal economy: an introduction," The Service Industries Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 38(11-12), pages 645-649, September.
  58. Colin C. Williams & Abbi Kedir, 2018. "Explaining Cross-National Variations In The Prevalence Of Informal Sector Entrepreneurship: Lessons From A Survey Of 142 Countries," Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 23(01), pages 1-22, March.
  59. Williams Colin C. & Bezeredi Slavko, 2018. "Explaining and Tackling Under-Declared Employment in FYR Macedonia: The Employers Perspective," South East European Journal of Economics and Business, Sciendo, vol. 13(2), pages 19-31, December.
  60. Colin C. Williams & Junhong Yang, 2018. "Evaluating competing perspectives towards undeclared work: some lessons from Bulgaria," Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 26(2-3), pages 247-265, September.
  61. Colin C. Williams & Ioana Alexandra Horodnic, 2018. "Evaluating the prevalence and distribution of dependent self†employment: some lessons from the European Working Conditions Survey," Industrial Relations Journal, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 49(2), pages 109-127, March.
  62. Colin C WILLIAMS & Slavko BEZEREDI, 2018. "Explaining informal entrepreneurship in South-East Europe: a tax morale approach," Eastern Journal of European Studies, Centre for European Studies, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, vol. 9, pages 47-68, December.
  63. Colin C. Williams & Ioana A. Horodnic, 2018. "Extent and distribution of unregistered employment in the service industries in Europe," The Service Industries Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 38(11-12), pages 856-874, September.
  64. Colin C. Williams & Slavko Bezeredi, 2018. "Evaluating Policy Approaches Towards Undeclared Work: Some Lessons from FYR of Macedonia," South-Eastern Europe Journal of Economics, Association of Economic Universities of South and Eastern Europe and the Black Sea Region, vol. 16(2), pages 171-187.
  65. Colin C. Williams & Slavko Bezeredi, 2018. "An Institutional Theory Of Informal Entrepreneurship: Some Lessons From Fyr Macedonia," Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 23(03), pages 1-22, September.
  66. Adrian V. Horodnic & Colin C. Williams, 2018. "Informal payments by patients for health services: prevalence and determinants," The Service Industries Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 38(11-12), pages 841-855, September.
  67. Colin C. Williams & Slavko Bezeredi, 2018. "Evaluating The Impact Of Informal Sector Competition On Firm Performance: Some Lessons From South-East Europe," Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 23(04), pages 1-14, December.
  68. Colin C. Williams & Besnik Krasniqi, 2018. "Explaining Informal Sector Entrepreneurship In Kosovo: An Institutionalist Perspective," Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 23(02), pages 1-20, June.
  69. Colin C. Williams & Abbi Kedir, 2018. "Contesting the underperformance thesis of women entrepreneurs: firm-level evidence from South Africa," International Journal of Management and Enterprise Development, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 17(1), pages 21-35.
  70. Colin C. Williams & Adrian V. Horodnic, 2018. "Explaining informal payments for health services in Central and Eastern Europe: an institutional asymmetry perspective," Post-Communist Economies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 30(4), pages 440-458, July.
  71. Colin C Williams & Slavko Bezeredi, 2017. "Explaining Consumers’ Motives for Purchasing from the Informal Economy: Some Lessons from a Study of Bulgaria, Croatia and FYR of of Macedonia," Economic Alternatives, University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria, issue 4, pages 515-531, December.
  72. Colin C. Williams & Ioana Alexandra Horodnic & Jan Windebank, 2017. "Evaluating the internal dualism of the informal sector: evidence from the European Union," Journal of Economic Studies, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 44(4), pages 605-616, September.
  73. Colin C. Williams & Ioana Alexandra Horodnic, 2017. "Tackling Bogus Self-Employment: Some Lessons From Romania," Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 22(02), pages 1-20, June.
  74. Colin C. WILLIAMS & Josip FRANIC, 2017. "Tackling the illegitimate under-reporting of salaries in Southeast Europe: some lessons from a 2015 survey in Bulgaria, Croatia and FYR Macedonia," Eastern Journal of European Studies, Centre for European Studies, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, vol. 8, pages 5-28, June.
  75. Colin C. Williams & Alvaro Martinez–Perez & Abbi M. Kedir, 2017. "Informal Entrepreneurship in Developing Economies: The Impacts of Starting up Unregistered on firm Performance," Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, , vol. 41(5), pages 773-799, September.
  76. Williams, Colin C. & Horodnic, Adrian V., 2017. "Rethinking informal payments by patients in Europe: An institutional approach," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 121(10), pages 1053-1062.
  77. Williams Colin C. & Yang Junhong, 2017. "Evaluating the Use of Personal Networks to Circumvent Formal Processes: A Case Study of Vruzki in Bulgaria," South East European Journal of Economics and Business, Sciendo, vol. 12(1), pages 57-67, April.
  78. Muhammad Shehryar Shahid & Peter Rodgers & Colin C. Williams, 2017. "Evaluating the participation of an ethnic minority group in informal employment: a product of exit or exclusion?," Review of Social Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 75(4), pages 468-488, October.
  79. Colin C Williams & Junhong Yang, 2017. "Tackling falsely-declared salaries in Bulgaria: evidence from a 2015 survey," Economic Alternatives, University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria, issue 3, pages 333-351, September.
  80. Colin C. Williams & Ioana A. Horodnic, 2017. "Evaluating the relationship between social exclusion and participation in the informal sector in the European Union," International Journal of Manpower, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 38(3), pages 489-503, June.
  81. Colin C. Williams & Ioana A. Horodnic, 2017. "Evaluating the Illegal Employer Practice of Under-Reporting Employees’ Salaries," British Journal of Industrial Relations, London School of Economics, vol. 55(1), pages 83-111, March.
  82. Colin C. Williams & Abbi M. Kedir, 2017. "Evaluating The Impacts Of Starting Up Unregistered On Firm Performance In Africa," Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 22(03), pages 1-20, September.
  83. Colin C. Williams & Besnik Krasniqi, 2017. "Evaluating the individual- and country-level variations in tax morale," Journal of Economic Studies, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 44(5), pages 816-832, October.
  84. Colin C Williams & Ioana A Horodnic, 2017. "Evaluating the policy approaches for tackling undeclared work in the European Union," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 35(5), pages 916-936, August.
  85. Colin C. Williams & Ioana Alexandra Horodnic & Jan Windebank, 2017. "Explaining participation in the informal economy: a purchaser perspective," International Journal of Social Economics, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 44(11), pages 1421-1436, November.
  86. Colin C. Williams & Ioana A. Horodnic, 2017. "Explaining participation in the undeclared economy in Central and Eastern Europe: a demand-side approach," Post-Communist Economies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 29(3), pages 297-312, July.
  87. Colin C Williams, 2017. "Tackling employment in the informal economy: A critical evaluation of the neoliberal policy approach," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 38(1), pages 145-169, February.
  88. Krasniqi Besnik A. & Williams Colin C., 2017. "Explaining individual- and country-level variations in unregistered employment using a multi-level model: evidence from 35 Eurasian countries," South East European Journal of Economics and Business, Sciendo, vol. 12(2), pages 61-72, December.
  89. Colin C. Williams & Josip Franic, 2016. "Explaining Participation in the Informal Economy in Post-Socialist Societies: A Study of the Asymmetry between Formal and Informal Institutions in Croatia," Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(1), pages 51-65, January.
  90. Abdoulie Sallah & Colin C. Williams, 2016. "Re-theorising the role of the informal economy in Sub-Saharan Africa: some lessons from Gambia," International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 28(2/3), pages 195-215.
  91. Williams, Colin C. & Shahid, Muhammad S. & Martínez, Alvaro, 2016. "Determinants of the Level of Informality of Informal Micro-Enterprises: Some Evidence from the City of Lahore, Pakistan," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 84(C), pages 312-325.
  92. Nataliia Ostapenko & Colin C. Williams, 2016. "Determinants of entrepreneurs' views on the acceptability of tax evasion and the informal economy in Slovakia and Ukraine: an institutional asymmetry approach," International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 28(2/3), pages 275-289.
  93. Colin C Williams & Ioana A Horodnic, 2016. "Tackling the undeclared economy in the European Union: an evaluation of the tax morale approach," Industrial Relations Journal, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 47(4), pages 322-340, July.
  94. Colin C. Williams & Alvaro Martinez-Perez, 2016. "Evaluating the impacts of corruption on firm performance in developing economies: an institutional perspective," International Journal of Business and Globalisation, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 16(4), pages 401-422.
  95. Colin C. Williams & Muhammad S. Shahid, 2016. "Informal entrepreneurship and institutional theory: explaining the varying degrees of (in)formalization of entrepreneurs in Pakistan," Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 28(1-2), pages 1-25, January.
  96. Colin C. Williams & Abbi M. Kedir, 2016. "The Impacts Of Corruption On Firm Performance: Some Lessons From 40 African Countries," Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 21(04), pages 1-18, December.
  97. Colin C Williams & Ioana Alexandra Horodnic, 2016. "An institutional theory of the informal economy: some lessons from the United Kingdom," International Journal of Social Economics, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 43(7), pages 722-738, July.
  98. Colin C Williams & Ioana Alexandra Horodnic, 2016. "Beyond the marginalization thesis," Journal of Economic Studies, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 43(3), pages 400-417, August.
  99. Ioana Alexandra Horodnic & Colin C. Williams, 2016. "An evaluation of the shadow economy in Baltic states: a tax morale perspective," International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 28(2/3), pages 339-358.
  100. Colin C. Williams, 2016. "Tackling enterprise in the informal economy: an introductory overview," International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 28(2/3), pages 139-153.
  101. Colin WILLIAMS & Ioana HORODNIC & Adrian HORODNIC, 2016. "Who is making informal payments for public healthcare in East-Central Europe? An evaluation of socio-economic and spatial variations," Eastern Journal of European Studies, Centre for European Studies, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, vol. 7, pages 49-61, June.
  102. Colin C. Williams & Ioana A. Horodnic, 2016. "Evaluating the multifarious motives for acquiring goods and services from the informal sector in Central and Eastern Europe," Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(3), pages 321-338, September.
  103. Colin C. Williams & Ioana Alexandra Horodnic, 2016. "Beyond the marginalisation thesis: evaluating participation in informal sector entrepreneurship," International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 28(2/3), pages 234-254.
  104. Ioana A. HORODNI & Colin C. WILLIAMS & Adrian V. HORODNIC, 2016. "Are Practices Of Competitors In The Informal Sector A Major Threat For Hotels And Restaurants?," THE YEARBOOK OF THE "GH. ZANE" INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC RESEARCHES, Gheorghe Zane Institute for Economic and Social Research ( from THE ROMANIAN ACADEMY, JASSY BRANCH), vol. 25(1), pages 49-60.
  105. Colin C Williams & Abbi M. Kedir, 2016. "Business Registration And Firm Performance: Some Lessons From India," Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 21(03), pages 1-19, September.
  106. Colin C. Williams & Josip Franic, 2016. "Beyond a Deterrence Approach towards the Undeclared Economy: Some Lessons from Bulgaria," Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 18(1), pages 90-106, January.
  107. Williams Colin C. & Horodnic Ioana A., 2015. "Explaining The Prevalence Of The Informal Economy In The Baltics: An Institutional Asymmetry Perspective," European Spatial Research and Policy, Sciendo, vol. 22(2), pages 127-145, December.
  108. Williams Colin C. & Franic Josip & Dzhekova Rositsa, 2015. "Explaining the Undeclared Economy in Bulgaria: an Institutional Asymmetry Perspective," South East European Journal of Economics and Business, Sciendo, vol. 9(2), pages 33-45, March.
  109. Williams Colin C. & Franic Josip, 2015. "Tackling the Propensity towards Undeclared Work: Some Policy Lessons from Croatia," South East European Journal of Economics and Business, Sciendo, vol. 10(1), pages 18-31, April.
  110. Colin C Williams, 2015. "Evaluating cross-national variations in envelope wage payments in East-Central Europe," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 36(2), pages 283-303, May.
  111. Pauline DIBBEN & Geoffrey WOOD & Colin C. WILLIAMS, 2015. "Pressures towards and against formalization: Regulation and informal employment in Mozambique," International Labour Review, International Labour Organization, vol. 154(3), pages 373-392, September.
  112. Colin C. Williams & Ioana Horodnic, 2015. "Marginalisation and participation in the informal economy in Central and Eastern European nations," Post-Communist Economies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 27(2), pages 153-169, June.
  113. Colin C. Williams & Ioana Horodnic, 2015. "Are Marginalised Populations More Likely to Engage in Undeclared Work in the Nordic Countries?," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 20(3), pages 15-29, August.
  114. Colin C Williams, 2015. "Cross-national variations in the scale of informal employment," International Journal of Manpower, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 36(2), pages 118-135, May.
  115. Colin C. WILLIAMS, 2015. "Out of the shadows: Classifying economies by the extent and nature of employment in the informal economy," International Labour Review, International Labour Organization, vol. 154(3), pages 331-351, September.
  116. Colin C. Williams, 2015. "Tackling Entrepreneurship In The Informal Sector: An Overview Of The Policy Options, Approaches And Measures," Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 20(01), pages 1-21.
  117. Williams Colin C., 2015. "Evaluating the Variations in Employment Relations Across Developing! Economies: A Degrees of Informalisation Approach," Journal of Economy and its Applications, Sciendo, vol. 5(1), pages 1-21, December.
  118. Colin C. Williams, 2015. "Tackling informal employment in developing and transition economies: a critical evaluation of the neo-liberal approach," International Journal of Business and Globalisation, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 14(3), pages 251-270.
  119. Colin C. Williams & Ioana A. Horodnic, 2015. "Explaining the Prevalence of Illegitimate Wage Practices in Southern Europe: An Institutional Analysis," South European Society and Politics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 20(2), pages 203-221, April.
  120. Colin C. Williams & Jan Windebank, 2015. "Evaluating competing theories of informal employment: some lessons from a 28-nation European survey," International Journal of Business and Globalisation, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 15(1), pages 45-62.
  121. Colin C. Williams & Youssef Youssef, 2015. "Theorising Entrepreneurship in the Informal Sector in Urban Brazil: A Product of Exit or Exclusion?," Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emerging Economies, Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India, vol. 24(2), pages 148-168, September.
  122. Colin C. Williams & Ioana A. Horodnic, 2015. "Explaining and tackling the shadow economy in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania: a tax morale approach," Baltic Journal of Economics, Baltic International Centre for Economic Policy Studies, vol. 15(2), pages 81-98.
  123. Colin C. Williams & Rositsa Dzhekova & Josip Franic & Lyubo Mishkov, 2015. "Evaluating the policy approach towards the undeclared economy in FYR Macedonia," International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 24(2), pages 268-286.
  124. Colin C. Williams & Ioana A. Horodnic, 2015. "Who Participates in the Undeclared Economy in South-Eastern Europe? An Evaluation of the Marginalization Thesis," South-Eastern Europe Journal of Economics, Association of Economic Universities of South and Eastern Europe and the Black Sea Region, vol. 13(2), pages 157-175.
  125. Dotti Nicola Francesco & Van Heur Bas & Williams Colin C., 2015. "Mapping the Shadow Economy: Spatial Variations in the use of High Denomination Bank Notes in Brussels," European Spatial Research and Policy, Sciendo, vol. 22(1), pages 5-21, June.
  126. Colin C Williams, 2014. "Out of the shadows: a classification of economies by the size and character of their informal sector," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 28(5), pages 735-753, October.
  127. Colin C. Williams, 2014. "Explaining cross-national variations in the prevalence of envelope wages: some lessons from a 2013 Eurobarometer survey," Industrial Relations Journal, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 45(6), pages 524-542, November.
  128. Colin C. Williams & Youssef Youssef, 2014. "Classifying Latin American Economies: A Degree of Informalisation Approach," International Journal of Business Administration, International Journal of Business Administration, Sciedu Press, vol. 5(3), pages 73-85, May.
  129. Colin C. Williams & Youssef Youssef, 2014. "Is Informal Sector Entrepreneurship Necessity- or Opportunity-driven? Some Lessons from Urban Brazil," Business and Management Research, Business and Management Research, Sciedu Press, vol. 3(1), pages 41-53, March.
  130. Colin C. Williams & Youssef Youssef, 2014. "Combating Informal Employment in Latin America: A Critical Evaluation of the Neo-Liberal Policy Approach," Research in World Economy, Research in World Economy, Sciedu Press, vol. 5(2), pages 1-13, September.
  131. Colin C. Williams & Rositsa Dzhekova, 2014. "Evaluating The Cross-National Transferability Of Policies: A Conceptual Framework," Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 19(04), pages 1-16.
  132. Colin C. Williams & Alvaro Martinez, 2014. "Do small business start-ups test-trade in the informal economy? Evidence from a UK survey," International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 22(1), pages 1-16.
  133. Williams, Colin C. & Martinez-Perez, Alvaro, 2014. "Why do consumers purchase goods and services in the informal economy?," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 67(5), pages 802-806.
  134. Colin Williams & Sara J. Nadin, 2014. "Facilitating the formalisation of entrepreneurs in the informal economy," Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 3(1), pages 33-48, April.
  135. Colin C. Williams, 2014. "Explaining Cross-national Variations in the Size of the Shadow Economy in Central and Eastern Europe," Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 22(2), pages 241-258, May.
  136. Colin C. Williams & Olga Onoshchenko, 2014. "Evaluating the prevalence and nature ofblatin post-Soviet societies," International Journal of Social Economics, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 41(9), pages 747-759, September.
  137. Colin C. Williams, 2014. "Uncoupling enterprise culture from capitalism," Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 8(2), pages 111-125, May.
  138. Williams Colin C., 2014. "Explaining Cross-National Variations in the Prevalence and Character of Undeclared Employment in the European Union," European Spatial Research and Policy, Sciendo, vol. 21(2), pages 115-131, December.
  139. Colin C Williams & Youssef Youssef, 2013. "Evaluating The Gender Variations In Informal Sector Entrepreneurship: Some Lessons From Brazil," Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 18(01), pages 1-16.
  140. Colin C. WILLIAMS & Jo PADMORE, 2013. "“Envelope wages” in the European Union," International Labour Review, International Labour Organization, vol. 152(3-4), pages 411-430, December.
  141. Colin C. Williams, 2013. "Evaluating cross-national variations in the extent and nature of informal employment in the European Union," Industrial Relations Journal, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 44(5-6), pages 479-494, November.
  142. Colin C. Williams & Anjula Gurtoo, 2013. "Beyond entrepreneurs as heroic icons of capitalist society: a case study of street entrepreneurs in India," International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 19(4), pages 421-437.
  143. Colin C. Williams, 2013. "Beyond the Entrepreneur as a Heroic Icon of Capitalist Culture: Some Lessons from Ukraine," Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 21(1), pages 51-66, April.
  144. Colin C. Williams, 2013. "Beyond The Formal Economy: Evaluating The Level Of Employment In Informal Sector Enterprises In Global Perspective," Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 18(04), pages 1-21.
  145. Colin C. Williams & Sara J. Nadin, 2013. "Beyond the entrepreneur as a heroic figurehead of capitalism: re-representing the lived practices of entrepreneurs," Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 25(7-8), pages 552-568, September.
  146. Marijana Baric & Colin C. Williams, 2013. "Tackling the Undeclared Economy in Croatia," South-Eastern Europe Journal of Economics, Association of Economic Universities of South and Eastern Europe and the Black Sea Region, vol. 11(1), pages 7-36.
  147. Colin C. WILLIAMS & Mark A. LANSKY, 2013. "Informal employment in developed and developing economies: Perspectives and policy responses," International Labour Review, International Labour Organization, vol. 152(3-4), pages 355-380, December.
  148. Olga Onoshchenko & Colin C. Williams, 2013. "Paying for Favours: Evaluating the Role of Blat in Post-Soviet Ukraine," Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 21(2-3), pages 259-277, December.
  149. Colin Williams & Sara Nadin, 2012. "Tackling the undeclared economy in the European construction industry," Policy Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 33(3), pages 193-214.
  150. Colin C Williams & Sara Nadin, 2012. "Work beyond employment: representations of informal economic activities," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 26(2), pages 1-10, April.
  151. Williams Colin, 2012. "Cross-National Variations in the Under-Reporting of Wages in South-East Europe: A Result of Over-Regulation or Under-Regulation?," South East European Journal of Economics and Business, Sciendo, vol. 7(1), pages 53-61, April.
  152. Colin C. Williams & Sara Nadin, 2012. "Tackling Undeclared Work in the European Union," CESifo Forum, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, vol. 13(02), pages 20-25, July.
  153. Colin Williams, 2012. "Explaining Undeclared Wage Payments by Employers in Central and Eastern Europe: A Critique of the Neo-liberal De-regulatory Theory," Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 20(1), pages 3-20.
  154. Nick Williams & Colin C. Williams, 2012. "Evaluating the socio-spatial contingency of entrepreneurial motivations: A case study of English deprived urban neighbourhoods," Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(7-8), pages 661-684, September.
  155. Colin C. Williams & Sara J. Nadin, 2012. "Tackling entrepreneurship in the informal economy: evaluating the policy options," Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 1(2), pages 111-124, October.
  156. Pauline Dibben & Colin C. Williams, 2012. "Varieties of Capitalism and Employment Relations: Informally Dominated Market Economies," Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 51, pages 563-582, April.
  157. Colin C. Williams & Kwame Adom & Sara Nadin & Youssef A. Youssef, 2012. "Gender variations in the reasons for engaging in informal sector entrepreneurship: some lessons from urban Brazil," International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 17(4), pages 478-494.
  158. Colin C. Williams & Jan Windebank & Sara Nadin, 2012. "Barriers to outsourcing household services to small business," The Service Industries Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 32(15), pages 2365-2377, January.
  159. Kwame Adom & Colin C. Williams, 2012. "Evaluating The Motives Of Informal Entrepreneurs In Koforidua, Ghana," Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 17(01), pages 1-17.
  160. Colin C. Williams & Peter Rodgers, 2012. "Evaluating the persistence of subsistence work in contemporary economies," International Journal of Social Economics, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 39(9), pages 721-737, July.
  161. Colin C. Williams & Abbi Kedir & Meryem Fethi & Sara Nadin, 2012. "Evaluating 'Varieties of Capitalism' by the Extent and Nature of the Informal Economy: The Case of South-Eastern Europe," South-Eastern Europe Journal of Economics, Association of Economic Universities of South and Eastern Europe and the Black Sea Region, vol. 10(2), pages 113-130.
  162. Colin C. Williams & Sara Nadin, 2012. "Beyond The Commercial Versus Social Entrepreneurship Dichotomy: A Case Study Of Informal Entrepreneurs," Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 17(03), pages 1-17.
  163. Colin C. Williams & Sara Nadin, 2012. "Tackling the hidden enterprise culture: Government policies to support the formalization of informal entrepreneurship," Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(9-10), pages 895-915, December.
  164. Williams Colin & Nadin Sara & Windebank Jan, 2012. "Evaluating the Prevalence and Nature of Self-Employment in the Informal Economy: Evidence From a 27-Nation European Survey," European Spatial Research and Policy, Sciendo, vol. 19(1), pages 129-142, July.
  165. Hudson John & Williams Colin & Orviska Marta & Nadin Sara, 2012. "Evaluating the Impact of the Informal Economy on Businesses in South East Europe: Some Lessons from the 2009 World Bank Enterprise Survey," South East European Journal of Economics and Business, Sciendo, vol. 7(1), pages 99-110, April.
  166. Colin C. Williams & Amadeo Fuenmayor & Sonia Dasí, 2011. "Innovation and creativity in the automobile industry: environmental proposals and initiatives," The Service Industries Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 31(12), pages 1931-1942, January.
  167. Colin C Williams & Anjula Gurtoo, 2011. "Evaluating Women Entrepreneurs In The Informal Sector: Some Evidence From India," Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 16(03), pages 351-369.
  168. Nick Williams & Colin C Williams, 2011. "Tackling barriers to entrepreneurship in a deprived urban neighbourhood," Local Economy, London South Bank University, vol. 26(1), pages 30-42, February.
  169. Colin C. Williams & Sara Nadin, 2011. "Theorising the hidden enterprise culture: the nature of entrepreneurship in the shadow economy," International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 14(3), pages 334-348.
  170. Colin C. Williams & John Round & Peter Rodgers, 2011. "Explaining the Normality of Informal Employment in Ukraine: A Product of Exit or Exclusion?," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 70(3), pages 729-755, July.
  171. Colin C. Williams & Sara J. Nadin & Jan Windebank, 2011. "Undeclared work in the European construction industry: evidence from a 2007 Eurobarometer survey," Construction Management and Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 29(8), pages 853-867, July.
  172. Colin C. Williams & Sara Nadin, 2011. "Evaluating entrepreneurs in the shadow economy: economic or social entrepreneurship?," International Journal of Management and Enterprise Development, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 11(1), pages 20-33.
  173. Colin Williams & Sara Nadin, 2011. "Evaluating the Persistence of Self-provisioning in Central and Eastern Europe: Some Evidence from Post-Soviet Ukraine," Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 19(3), pages 535-551.
  174. Colin C. Williams, 2011. "Entrepreneurship, the informal economy and rural communities," Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 5(2), pages 145-157, May.
  175. Colin C. Williams & Sara Nadin & Peter Rodgers & John Round & Jan Windebank, 2011. "Mapping the Social Organization of Labour in Moscow: Beyond the Formal/informal Labour Dualism," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 16(1), pages 43-53, February.
  176. Colin Williams, 2011. "A Critical Evaluation of Competing Conceptualizations of Informal Employment: Some Lessons from England," Review of Social Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 69(2), pages 211-237.
  177. Colin C. Williams & John Round, 2011. "Beyond competing theories of the hidden economy," Journal of Economic Studies, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 38(2), pages 171-185, May.
  178. Colin C. Williams & Sara J. Nadin & Jan E. Windebank, 2011. "Explaining participation in the self-service economy," The Service Industries Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 32(11), pages 1811-1822, March.
  179. Colin C. Williams & Sara Nadin, 2011. "Re-reading entrepreneurship in the hidden economy: commercial or social entrepreneurs?," International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 14(4), pages 441-455.
  180. Colin C. Williams & John Round & Peter Rodgers, 2010. "Explaining the off-the-books enterprise culture of Ukraine: reluctant or willing entrepreneurship?," International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 10(2), pages 165-180.
  181. Colin C. Williams & John Round, 2010. "The Shallow and Uneven Diffusion of Capitalism into Everyday Life in Post-Soviet Moscow," Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 18(1), pages 53-69.
  182. Colin C. Williams, 2010. "Beyond the market/non‐market divide: a total social organisation of labour perspective," International Journal of Social Economics, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 37(6), pages 402-414, May.
  183. Colin C. Williams & John Round, 2010. "Spatial variations in the character of off-the-books entrepreneurship: lessons from a study of contrasting districts in Moscow," International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 10(2), pages 287-301.
  184. Richard White & Colin Williams, 2010. "Re-thinking Monetary Exchange: Some Lessons from England," Review of Social Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 68(3), pages 317-338.
  185. Colin C. Williams & Sara Nadin, 2010. "The Commonality And Character Of Off-The-Books Entrepreneurship: A Comparison Of Deprived And Affluent Urban Neighborhoods," Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 15(03), pages 345-358.
  186. Colin C. Williams & Sara Nadin, 2010. "Entrepreneurship And The Informal Economy: An Overview," Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 15(04), pages 361-378.
  187. Colin C. Williams, 2009. "Entrepreneurship and the off-the-books economy: some lessons from England," International Journal of Management and Enterprise Development, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 7(4), pages 429-444.
  188. Colin C. Williams & John Round & Peter Rodgers, 2009. "Evaluating The Motives Of Informal Entrepreneurs: Some Lessons From Ukraine," Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 14(01), pages 59-71.
  189. Colin C. Williams, 2009. "Spatial variations in the hidden enterprise culture: Some lessons from England," Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 22(5), pages 403-423, April.
  190. Colin C. Williams, 2009. "Illegitimate Wage Practices in Central and Eastern Europe: A Study of the Prevalence and Impacts of “Envelope Wages”," Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 17(1), pages 65-83.
  191. Colin Williams, 2009. "Tackling undeclared work in Europe: lessons from a 27-nation survey," Policy Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 30(2), pages 143-162.
  192. Colin C. Williams, 2009. "Rationales for outsourcing domestic services to off‐the‐books workers," Journal of Economic Studies, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 36(4), pages 343-354, September.
  193. Colin C. Williams, 2009. "The Commonality of Envelope Wages in Eastern European Economies," Eastern European Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 47(2), pages 37-52, March.
  194. Williams Colin, 2009. "Evaluating the Extent and Nature of ‘Envelope Wages’ in the European Union: A Geographical Analysis," European Spatial Research and Policy, Sciendo, vol. 16(1), pages 115-129, June.
  195. John Round & Colin C. Williams & Peter Rodgers, 2008. "Corruption in the post-Soviet workplace: the experiences of recent graduates in contemporary Ukraine," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 22(1), pages 149-166, March.
  196. Colin C. Williams & John Round, 2008. "Gender Variations in the Nature of Undeclared Work: Evidence from Ukraine," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 13(4), pages 1-16, July.
  197. Colin C. Williams & John Round, 2008. "The Illusion of Capitalism in Post-Soviet Ukraine," Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 16(3), pages 331-345.
  198. Colin C. Williams & John Round, 2008. "A Critical Evaluation of Romantic Depictions of the Informal Economy," Review of Social Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 66(3), pages 297-323.
  199. Colin Williams, 2008. "Envelope wages in Central and Eastern Europe and the EU," Post-Communist Economies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 20(3), pages 363-376.
  200. Colin C. Williams & John Round, 2008. "The Hidden Enterprise Culture Of Moscow: Entrepreneurship And Off-The-Books Working Practices," Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 13(04), pages 445-462.
  201. Peter Rodgers & Colin C. Williams & John Round, 2008. "Workplace crime and the informal economy in Ukraine," International Journal of Social Economics, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 35(9), pages 666-678, August.
  202. Paul Ponsaers & Joanna Shapland & Colin C. Williams, 2008. "Does the informal economy link to organised crime?," International Journal of Social Economics, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 35(9), pages 644-650, August.
  203. Colin. C. Williams, 2008. "Illegitimate wage practices in Eastern Europe: - The case of 'envelope wages'," Journal of East European Management Studies, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, vol. 13(3), pages 253-270.
  204. Colin C. Williams & John Round, 2008. "Evaluating the Penetration of Capitalism in Postsocialist Moscow," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 67(2), pages 359-379, April.
  205. Colin C. Williams & John Round & Peter Rodgers, 2007. "Beyond the formal/informal economy binary hierarchy," International Journal of Social Economics, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 34(6), pages 402-414, May.
  206. Colin C. Williams & John Round, 2007. "Beyond Negative Depictions of Informal Employment: Some Lessons from Moscow," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 44(12), pages 2321-2338, November.
  207. Colin C. Williams, 2007. "Socio‐spatial variations in the nature of entrepreneurship," Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 1(1), pages 27-37, April.
  208. Colin C. Williams & John Round, 2007. "Entrepreneurship And The Informal Economy: A Study Of Ukraine'S Hidden Enterprise Culture," Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 12(01), pages 119-136.
  209. Colin C. Williams, 2007. "The Nature Of Entrepreneurship In The Informal Sector: Evidence From England," Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 12(02), pages 239-254.
  210. Colin C. Williams & John Round, 2007. "Evaluating the penetration of capitalism in post‐socialist Ukraine," Journal of Economic Studies, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 34(5), pages 415-429, October.
  211. Colin C. Williams, 2007. "Beyond ideal-type depictions of entrepreneurship: some lessons from the service sector in England," The Service Industries Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 28(7), pages 1041-1053, October.
  212. Colin C. Williams & John Round, 2007. "Re‐thinking the Nature of the Informal Economy: Some Lessons from Ukraine," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 31(2), pages 425-441, June.
  213. Colin C. Williams, 2006. "Beyond Market‐Oriented Readings of Paid Informal Work," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 65(2), pages 383-406, April.
  214. Colin C. Williams, 2006. "Evaluating the magnitude of the shadow economy: a direct survey approach," Journal of Economic Studies, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 33(5), pages 369-385, September.
  215. Colin C. Williams, 2006. "Beyond the market: representing work in advanced economies," International Journal of Social Economics, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 33(4), pages 284-297, April.
  216. Colin C. Williams & Jan Windebank, 2006. "Harnessing the hidden enterprise culture of advanced economies," International Journal of Manpower, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 27(6), pages 535-551, August.
  217. Colin C. Williams, 2006. "Harnessing the Hidden Enterprise Culture: the Street UK Community Development Finance Initiative," Local Economy, London South Bank University, vol. 21(1), pages 13-24, February.
  218. Colin C. Williams, 2006. "How much for cash? Tackling the cash-in-hand ethos in the household services sector," The Service Industries Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 26(5), pages 479-492, July.
  219. Colin C. Williams & Jan Windebank, 2005. "Eliminating undeclared work: beyond a deterrence approach," Journal of Economic Studies, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 32(5), pages 435-449, October.
  220. Colin Williams, 2005. "Fostering community engagement and tackling undeclared work: The case for an evidence-based 'joined-up' public policy approach," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 39(8), pages 1145-1155.
  221. Colin Williams, 2005. "Unraveling the Meanings of Underground Work," Review of Social Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 63(1), pages 1-18.
  222. Colin C. Williams, 2004. "Community Capacity Building: A Critical Evaluation of the Third Sector Approach," Review of Policy Research, Policy Studies Organization, vol. 21(5), pages 729-739, September.
  223. Colin C. Williams, 2004. "Tackling undeclared work in advanced economies," Policy Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 25(4), pages 243-258.
  224. Colin C. Williams, 2004. "Informal volunteering: Some lessons from the United Kingdom," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 23(3), pages 613-616.
  225. Colin Williams, 2004. "Rethinking the 'Economy' and Uneven Development: Spatial Disparities in Household Coping Capabilities in Contemporary England," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 38(5), pages 505-516.
  226. Colin C. Williams, 2004. "‘Cash-In-Hand Work: Unravelling Informal Employment from the Moral Economy of Favours’," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 9(1), pages 34-45, February.
  227. Colin C. Williams & Jan Windebank, 2003. "The slow advance and uneven penetration of commodification," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 27(2), pages 250-264, June.
  228. Colin Williams, 2003. "Developing Community Involvement: Contrasting Local and Regional Participatory Cultures in Britain and their Implications for Policy," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 37(5), pages 531-541.
  229. Colin C. Williams, 2002. "Why Do People Use Alternative Retail Channels? Some Case-study Evidence from Two English Cities," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 39(10), pages 1897-1910, September.
  230. C.C. Williams, 2002. "Beyond the Retail Store: An Evaluation of Goods Acquisition Practices in British Deprived Urban Neighbourhoods," The Service Industries Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 22(3), pages 37-51, July.
  231. Colin C. Williams & Jan Windebank, 2002. "The Uneven Geographies of Informal Economic Activities: a Case Study of Two British Cities," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 16(2), pages 231-250, June.
  232. Colin Williams, 2002. "Harnessing Voluntary Work: A Fourth Sector Approach," Policy Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 23(3), pages 247-260.
  233. Colin C. Williams, 2002. "Harnessing Community Self-Help: Some Lessons from Rural England," Local Economy, London South Bank University, vol. 17(2), pages 136-146, May.
  234. Colin C Williams & Jan Windebank, 2001. "Paid informal work: a barrier to social inclusion?," Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, , vol. 7(1), pages 025-040, February.
  235. Colin Williams & Theresa Aldridge & Roger Lee & Andrew Leyshon & Nigel Thrift & Jane Tooke, 2001. "Bridges into Work? An Evaluation of Local Exchange and Trading Schemes (LETS)," Policy Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 22(2), pages 119-132.
  236. Colin C. Williams & Jan Windebank, 2001. "Note: Paid Informal Work in Deprived Urban Neighborhoods: Exploitative Employment or Cooperative Self‐Help?," Growth and Change, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 32(4), pages 548-557.
  237. Theresa Aldridge & Jane Tooke & Roger Lee & Andrew Leyshon & Nigel Thrift & Colin Williams, 2001. "Recasting Work: The Example of Local Exchange Trading Schemes," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 15(3), pages 565-579, September.
  238. Colin C Williams, 2001. "Tackling the Participation of the Unemployed in Paid Informal Work: A Critical Evaluation of the Deterrence Approach," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 19(5), pages 729-749, October.
  239. Colin Williams & Jan Windebank, 2001. "Reconceptualising Paid Informal Exchange: Some Lessons from English Cities," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 33(1), pages 121-140, January.
  240. Colin C. Williams & Windebank Jan, 2000. "Beyond Employment: An Examination of Modes of Service Provision in a Deprived Neighbourhood," The Service Industries Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 20(4), pages 33-46, October.
  241. Colin C. Williams & Jan Windebank, 2000. "Self-help and Mutual Aid in Deprived Urban Neighbourhoods: Some Lessons from Southampton," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 37(1), pages 127-147, January.
  242. Williams, Colin C., 1996. "The New Barter Economy: An Appraisal of Local Exchange and Trading Systems (LETS)," Journal of Public Policy, Cambridge University Press, vol. 16(1), pages 85-101, January.
  243. C C Williams, 1996. "Local Exchange and Trading Systems: A New Source of Work and Credit for the Poor and Unemployed?," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 28(8), pages 1395-1415, August.
  244. Colin C. Williams, 1996. "An appraisal of Local Exchange and Trading Systems in the United Kingdom," Local Economy, London South Bank University, vol. 11(3), pages 259-266, November.
  245. C C Williams, 1996. "Understanding the Role of Consumer Services in Local Economic Development: Some Evidence from the Fens," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 28(3), pages 555-571, March.
  246. Colin C. Williams, 1994. "Rethinking the Role of the Service Sector in Local Economic Revitalisation," Local Economy, London South Bank University, vol. 9(1), pages 73-82, May.
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  247. Colin C. Williams & Abbi M. Kedir, 0. "Starting-up unregistered and firm performance in Turkey," International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, Springer, vol. 0, pages 1-21.

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Chapters

  1. Colin C. Williams, 2023. "E-government Tools to Formalise the Informal Economy," SpringerBriefs in Economics, in: Formalization of the Informal Economy, chapter 0, pages 57-104, Springer.
  2. Colin C. Williams, 2023. "Theorising an E-government Approach Towards Formalising the Informal Economy," SpringerBriefs in Economics, in: Formalization of the Informal Economy, chapter 0, pages 21-56, Springer.
  3. Colin C. Williams, 2023. "Conclusions: A Future Roadmap for the Transition to Formality Using Digital Services," SpringerBriefs in Economics, in: Formalization of the Informal Economy, chapter 0, pages 105-121, Springer.
  4. Colin C. Williams, 2023. "Introduction to Formalising the Informal Economy Using an E-government Approach," SpringerBriefs in Economics, in: Formalization of the Informal Economy, chapter 0, pages 1-20, Springer.
  5. Ligita Gasparėnienė & Rita Remeikienė & Colin C. Williams, 2022. "Theorizing the Informal Economy," SpringerBriefs in Economics, in: Unemployment and the Informal Economy, chapter 0, pages 7-60, Springer.
  6. Ligita Gasparėnienė & Rita Remeikienė & Colin C. Williams, 2022. "Introduction," SpringerBriefs in Economics, in: Unemployment and the Informal Economy, chapter 0, pages 1-6, Springer.
  7. Ligita Gasparėnienė & Rita Remeikienė & Colin C. Williams, 2022. "Conclusions and Recommendations," SpringerBriefs in Economics, in: Unemployment and the Informal Economy, chapter 0, pages 77-83, Springer.
  8. Ligita Gasparėnienė & Rita Remeikienė & Colin C. Williams, 2022. "Relationship Between Unemployment and the Informal Economy in Lithuania," SpringerBriefs in Economics, in: Unemployment and the Informal Economy, chapter 0, pages 61-75, Springer.
  9. Colin C. Williams & Richard J. White, 2020. "The persistence of informal and unpaid labour: evidence from UK households," Chapters, in: J. K. Gibson-Graham & Kelly Dombroski (ed.), The Handbook of Diverse Economies, chapter 14, pages 137-145, Edward Elgar Publishing.
  10. Peter Rodgers & Colin C. Williams, 2019. "Entrepreneurial Practices in an Age of Super-Diversity: A Study of Ukrainian Entrepreneurs in the UK," Springer Books, in: Veland Ramadani & Léo-Paul Dana & Vanessa Ratten & Abdylmenaf Bexheti (ed.), Informal Ethnic Entrepreneurship, pages 29-44, Springer.
  11. Nick Williams & Colin Williams, 2017. "Entrepreneurship and deprived urban areas: understanding activity and the hidden enterprise culture," Chapters, in: Maarten van Ham & Darja Reuschke & Reinout Kleinhans & Colin Mason & Stephen Syrett (ed.), Entrepreneurial Neighbourhoods, chapter 2, pages 21-40, Edward Elgar Publishing.
  12. Colin C. Williams & Jan Windebank, 2011. "Regional Variations in the Nature of the Shadow Economy: Evidence from a Survey of 27 European Union Member States," Chapters, in: Friedrich Schneider (ed.), Handbook on the Shadow Economy, chapter 5, Edward Elgar Publishing.

Books

  1. Colin C. Williams, 2023. "A Modern Guide to the Informal Economy," Books, Edward Elgar Publishing, number 18668.
  2. Colin C. Williams, 2023. "Formalization of the Informal Economy," SpringerBriefs in Economics, Springer, number 978-3-031-37928-4, June.
  3. Ligita Gasparėnienė & Rita Remeikienė & Colin C. Williams, 2022. "Unemployment and the Informal Economy," SpringerBriefs in Economics, Springer, number 978-3-030-96687-4, June.
  4. Colin C. Williams & Ioana A. Horodnic, 2019. "Dependent Self-Employment," Books, Edward Elgar Publishing, number 18310.
  5. Colin C. Williams & Friedrich Schneider, 2016. "Measuring the Global Shadow Economy," Books, Edward Elgar Publishing, number 16551.
  6. Arnis Sauka & Friedrich Schneider & Colin C. Williams (ed.), 2016. "Entrepreneurship and the Shadow Economy," Books, Edward Elgar Publishing, number 16655.
  7. Anjula Gurtoo & Colin Williams (ed.), 2015. "Developing Country Perspectives on Public Service Delivery," Springer Books, Springer, edition 127, number 978-81-322-2160-9, December.
  8. Colin C. Williams, 2014. "Confronting the Shadow Economy," Books, Edward Elgar Publishing, number 15370.
  9. Colin C. Williams, 2006. "The Hidden Enterprise Culture," Books, Edward Elgar Publishing, number 3948.

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