Ties configuration in entrepreneurs’ personal network and economic performances in African urban informal economy

Jean-Philippe Berrou and François Combarnous

Cahiers du GREThA (2007-2019) from Groupe de Recherche en Economie Théorique et Appliquée (GREThA)

Abstract: As to explore social networks influence in African informal economy, this paper fits in the conceptual framework of reticular embeddedness. By going into the analyse of ties strength, our purpose is to question the real influence of ties content. We use a recent original dataset to evaluate how entrepreneurs’ networks influence their activities economic outcomes. ‘Multiple name generators’ method provides a vast amount of information about ties content, which can be treated by factor analysis to describe and categorize networks. Finally, we show that not only business ties but the particular configuration of ties strength in networks improve informal earnings.

Keywords: Informal economy; embeddedness; social networks; informal earnings (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O17 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-afr, nep-dev, nep-ent, nep-net and nep-soc
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