AN INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE SHADOW ECONOMY AND RELIGIOUS ORIENTED ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN POLAND. A QUALITATIVE INQUIRY

• Authors: Rafal Smoczynski
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper explores whether Catholic organisations, understood as moral communities, may act as intermediary institutions of control between markets and the post-socialist Polish state in constraining shadow economy activities of religionists who professionally run small and medium-sized companies. The interview data show that religious control efficiency is determined by the integrative potential of the specific religious organisation with which the analysed entrepreneurs were associated. This study also shows that the intertwining of an otherworldly orientation and dense social capital implies numerous ambiguities, which may produce destabilising effects for companies’ organizational efficiency.

Keywords

EN

SHADOW ECONOMY; POLISH CATHOLICISM; SMALL-SIZED COMPANIES; MEDIUM-SIZED COMPANIES; MORAL COMMUNITY; AMBIGUITIES; POLAND

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Sociológia (Sociology)
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 47
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 272 – 296

Contributors

author

Rafal Smoczynski

• Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Nowy Swiat 72, 00-330 Warszawa, Poland