Recent debates on informal economic activities have partially switched away from a pure
monetary logic towards a more complex one, embedded in long term relations and …

This chapter focuses on contexts of entrepreneurship, in particular geographical contexts,
and entrepreneurial agency. The twin concepts space and place are key in understanding …

Economics was often unable so far to grasp the deep meaning of these events and update
or rethink appropriately its mainstream. Comparative economic systems produced fine and …

Borderlands, as spaces of various forms of entrepreneurial activities, offer rich examples of
informal entrepreneurial activities that depend on the border location to be developed and …

Detailing the history of a well-known phenomenon of post-socialism-cross-border petty trade
and smuggling-as the history of a practice in daily life from a gendered perspective, this …

Cross-border entrepreneurship activity plays an important role in the community economic
development programs. The emergence of business groups and trade activities will …

Borders have been a part of Viktor's life for most of his adulthood. Until the 'anthropological
shock'(Beck, 1987) of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Viktor was doing national …

Customs and geopolitics condition one another and are produced on a transnational,
national, and local scale. The Russian war in Ukraine gives this interdependency a human …

European Union (EU) enlargement and the later shaping of its relationships with its new
Eastern neighbours through the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) have had a …

Economic action requires well-functioning institutions, both formal and informal ones. In this
chapter, we use the example of entrepreneurship in different contexts to explore the …