Entrepreneurial Political Action in the Informal Economy: The Case of the Kumasi Petty Traders
研究非正规经济中的小商贩何时会参与政治活动，基于加纳库马西200多次访谈，发现他们考虑政府容忍度和对集体行动领导者的信任，政策重要性受增长导向和家庭生存依赖影响。
This paper develops a new concept, entrepreneurial political activity based on corporate political activity to understand when an entrepreneur, representing both the firm and the individual simultaneously, will engage in political activity. The case of petty traders in Kumasi, Ghana generates grounded theory of entrepreneurial political activity. Faced with an existential threat, informal entrepreneurs had to decide whether to try to influence government policy by engaging in political activity. Findings from over 200 interviews demonstrated entrepreneurs carefully considered the state’s willingness to allow for the extra-legal economic activity in the informal economy to continue, and if they had trust in the leadership of the collective action before engaging in political action. Policy saliency motivating action was determined by growth orientation and dependency on the venture for household survival, both driven by the entrepreneur’s social role in the social system.