Biography

Prof. Colin C. Williams

School of Management

University of Sheffield, UK

Full Professor


Email: C.C.Williams@sheffield.ac.uk


Qualifications

1987 M.phil., Urban and Regional Studies, University of Birmingham, UK

1983 B.Sc., Environmental Studies, Hertfordshire University, UK


Publications (selected)

Books

  1. Williams, C.C. (2014) Combating the shadow economy: evaluating tax behaviour and policies, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.
  2. Williams, C.C. and Renooy, P. (2014) Flexibility@Work 2014:Bringing the Undeclared Economy out of the Shadows – the Role of Temporary Work Agencies, Randstad, Amsterdam.
  3. Williams, C.C. (2014) The Informal Economy and Poverty: evidence and policy review, Report prepared for Joseph Rowntree Foundation, York.
  4. Williams, C.C., Round, J. and Rodgers, P. (2013) The Role of Informal Economies in the Post-Soviet World: the end of transition?, Routledge, London.
  5. Schneider, F. and Williams, C.C. (2013) The Shadow Economy, Institute of Economic Affairs, London (pp.192).
  6. Williams, C.C. and Renooy, P. (2013) Tackling Undeclared Work in 27 European Union Member States and Norway: approaches and measures since 2008, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, Dublin.
  7. Williams, C.C., Nadin, S., Barbour, A. and Llanes, M. (2012) Enabling Enterprise: tackling the barriers to formalisation, Community Links, London.
  8. Dekker, H., Oranje, E., Renooy, P., Rosing, F. and Williams, C.C. (2010) Joining up the fight against undeclared work in the European Union, DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, Brussels.
    [Available at http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=471&langId=en]
  9. Marcelli, E.A., Williams, C.C. and Joassart, P. (Eds.) (2010) Informal Work in Developed Nations, Routledge, London.
  10. Williams, C.C. and Renooy, P. (2009) Measures to Combat Undeclared Work in 27 EuropeanUnionMemberStates and Norway, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, Dublin.

Journal articles

  1. Williams, C.C., Dzhekova, R., Franic, J. andMishkov, L. (2015) “Evaluating the policy approach towards the undeclared economy in FYR Macedonia”, International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business,Vol. 24, No. 2, pp.268–286.
  2. Williams, C.C. and Horodnic, I. (2015) “Rethinking the marginalisation thesis: an evaluation of the socio-spatial variations in undeclared work in the European Union”, Employee Relations, Vol. 37. No.1, pp. 48 – 65.
  3. Evans, M., Syrett, S., Sanderson, I. and Williams, C.C. (2006)The Economies of Deprived Neighbourhoods, Department of Communities and Local Government, London.
  4. Williams, C.C. (2015) “Evaluating cross-national variations in envelope wage payments in East-Central Europe”, Economic and Industrial Democracy: an International Journal.
  5. Williams, C.C. (2015) “Tackling informal employment in developing and transition economies: a critical evaluation of the neo-liberal approach”, International Journal of Business and Globalisation, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp.251–270.

  6. Williams, C.C. (2015) “Tackling entrepreneurship in the informal sector: an overview of the policy options, approaches and measures”, Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, Vol. 19, No.5.

  7. Williams, C.C. and Franic, J. (2015) “Tackling the propensity towards undeclared work: some policy lessons from Croatia”, The South East European Journal of Economics and Business, Vol. 10, No.1, pp. 18-31.

  8. Williams, C.C. (2015) “Williams, C.C., Horodnic, I. and Windebank, J. (forthcoming) “Explaining participation in the informal economy: an institutional incongruence perspective”, International Sociology, Vol. 30, No. 3, pp. 294-313.

  9. Williams, C.C. and Horodnic, I. (2015) “Self-employment, the informal economy and the marginalisation thesis: some evidence from the European Union”, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research, Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 224-242.

  10. Williams, C.C. (2015) “Explaining cross-national variations in the scale of informal employment: an exploratory analysis of 41 less developed economies”, International Journal of Manpower,Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 118-135.

  11. Williams, C.C. and Youssef, Y (2014) “Combating informal employment in Latin America: a critical evaluation of the neo-liberal approach”, Research in World Economy, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/rwe.v5n2p1.

  12. Williams, C.C. and Martinez-Perez, A. (2014) “Evaluating the cash-in-hand consumer culture in the European Union”, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 466-482.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2014.925852.

  13. Williams, C.C. and Onoshchenko, O. (2014) “Evaluating the prevalence and nature of blat in post-Soviet societies: a case study of the education sector in Ukraine”, International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 41, No. 9, pp. 747 - 759.

  14. Williams, C.C. and Martinez-Perez, A. (2014) “Explaining cross-national variations in tax morality in the European Union: an exploratory analysis”, Studies in Transition States and Societies, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 5-18.

  15. Williams, C.C. (2014) “Uncoupling enterprise culture from capitalism: some lessons from Moscow”, Journal of Enterprising Communities, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 111-125. doi: 10.1108/JEC-08-2012-0043.

  16. Williams, C.C. (2014) “Tackling enterprises operating in the informal sector in developing and transition economies: a critical evaluation of the neo-liberal policy approach”, Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research, Vol. 2, Number 9, doi: 10.1186/2251-7316-2-9, http://www.journal-jger.com/content/2/1/9

  17. Williams, C.C. (2014) “Public policy approaches towards the undeclared economy in European countries: a critical overview”, European Labour Law Journal, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 132-155

  18. Williams, C.C. and Youssef, Y. (2014) “Tackling informal entrepreneurship in Latin America: a critical evaluation of the neo-liberal policy approach”, Journal of Entrepreneurship and Organization Management,Vol. 3, No.1,pp. 1-9. http://dx.doi.org/10.4172/2169-026X.1000112

  19. Williams, C.C. and Martinez-Perez, A. (2014) “Do small business start-ups test-trade in the informal economy? Evidence from a UK small business survey”, International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 1-16. DOI: 10.1504/IJESB.2014.062127

  20. Williams, C.C. and Youssef, Y (2014) “Classifying Latin American economies: a degrees of informalisation approach”, International Journal of Business Administration, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 73 – 85. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/ijba.v5n3p73

  21. Williams, C.C. and Onoshchenko, O. (2014) “Evaluating the role of blat in finding graduate employment in post-Soviet Ukraine: the ‘dark side’ of job recruitment?”,Employee Relations, Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 254-265. DOI: 10.1108/ER-06-2013-0070

  22. Adom, K. and Williams, C.C. (2014) “Evaluating the explanations for the informal economy in third world cities: some evidence from Koforidua in the eastern region of Ghana”, International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 427-445. DOI: 10.1007/s11365-012-0224-5

  23. Williams, C.C. and Dzhekova, R., (2014) “Evaluating the cross-national transferability of policies: a conceptual framework”, Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, Vol. 19, No. 4., 1450022

  24. Williams, C.C. (2014) “A critical evaluation of the policy options towards the undeclared economy”, Journal of Self-Governance and Management Economics, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 7–52.

  25. Williams, C.C. and Martinez-Perez, A. (2014)“Is the informal economy an incubator for new enterprise creation? a gender perspective”, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research, Vol. 20, No.1, pp. 4-19.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/IJEBR-05-2013-0075


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Last updated: 2015-06-30

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