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Economics and Finance
UK
2024

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
82
Citations
23656
World Ranking
252
National Ranking
28

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Colin C. Williams is affiliated with the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. Their principal area of research is within the broad domain of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with a significant focus on subfields including Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science, Accounting, and Ocean Engineering.

Their research extensively covers topics related to Taxation and Compliance Studies, Employment and Welfare Studies, Digital Economy and Work Transformation, Microfinance and Financial Inclusion, Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth, Sharing Economy and Platforms, and Islamic Finance and Banking Studies.

Frequent collaborators in their work include Ioana Alexandra Horodnic, Dorrik A. V. Stow, James R. Cochran, Christian Auroux, and Kazuo Amano.

Williams has numerous publications, contributing substantially to journals and electronic platforms. Some notable recent papers include:

  • COVID-19 and undeclared work: impacts and policy responses in Europe, 2020, Service Industries Journal
  • Transitioning From the Informal to Formal Economy, 2022, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on Europe's tourism industry: Addressing tourism enterprises and workers in the undeclared economy, 2020, International Journal of Tourism Research
  • Tackling Undeclared Work in the Collaborative Economy and Bogus Self-Employment, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal

Williams contributes regularly to several publication venues, including:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship
  • International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business
  • Economic Alternatives

In the realm of book publications, Williams has published works with Springer International Publishing and Edward Elgar Publishing. Titles include:

  • Formalization of the Informal Economy (2023)
  • Unemployment and the Informal Economy (2022)
  • A Modern Guide to the Informal Economy (2023)

The scope of their work frequently addresses issues of informal economies, undeclared labor, and the impacts of economic changes such as those brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Best Publications

  • Informal Employment in Advanced Economies: Implications for Work and Welfare

    Colin C. Williams;Jan Windebank

  • The diverse and contested meanings of sustainable development

    Colin C Williams;Andrew C Millington

  • Alternative economic spaces

    Andrew Leyshon;Roger Lee;Colin C. Williams

  • The shadow economy

    Colin C Williams;Friedrich Schneider;Friedrich Schneider

  • The Hidden Enterprise Culture: Entrepreneurship in the Underground Economy

    Colin C. Williams

  • Cash-in-hand work : the underground sector and the hidden economy of favours

    Colin C. Williams

  • A Commodified World: Mapping the Limits of Capitalism

    Colin C. Williams

  • ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND THE INFORMAL ECONOMY: AN OVERVIEW

    Colin C. Williams;Sara Nadin

  • Entrepreneurship and the Informal Sector: Some Lessons from India

    Anjula Gurtoo;Colin C. Williams

  • Informal entrepreneurship and institutional theory: explaining the varying degrees of (in)formalization of entrepreneurs in Pakistan

    Colin C. Williams;Muhammad S. Shahid

  • Beyond necessity-driven versus opportunity-driven entrepreneurship

    Colin C. Williams

  • Informal employment in developed and developing economies: Perspectives and policy responses

    Colin C. Williams;Mark A. Lansky

  • Informal Entrepreneurship in Developing Economies: The Impacts of Starting up Unregistered on firm Performance:

    Colin C. Williams;Alvaro Martinez-Perez;Abbi M. Kedir

  • Determinants of the Level of Informality of Informal Micro-Enterprises: Some Evidence from the City of Lahore, Pakistan

    Colin C. Williams;Muhammad S. Shahid;Alvaro Martínez

  • Bridges into Work? An Evaluation of Local Exchange and Trading Schemes (LETS)

    Colin C. Williams;Theresa Aldridge;Roger Lee;Andrew Leyshon

  • Out of the shadows: a classification of economies by the size and character of their informal sector:

    Colin C Williams

  • The motives of off-the-books entrepreneurs: necessity- or opportunity-driven?

    Colin C. Williams

  • Consumer services and economic development

    Colin C. Williams

  • Evaluating the prevalence of the undeclared economy in Central and Eastern Europe: An institutional asymmetry perspective

    Colin C Williams;Ioana A Horodnic

  • Leaning into the future : changing the way people change organisations

    George Binney;Colin Williams

  • Social Enterprise: At the Crossroads of Market, Public Policies and Civil Society

    Colin C. Williams

Frequent Co-Authors

Friedrich Schneider
Friedrich Schneider Johannes Kepler University of Linz
Andrew Leyshon
Andrew Leyshon University of Nottingham
Nigel Thrift
Nigel Thrift University of Bristol
Geoffrey Wood
Geoffrey Wood University of Western Ontario
John Hudson
John Hudson University of Bath

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