Actors and quality of formal and informal businesses in the construction sector in Algeria

Abstract

Small business enterprises (SBEs) activating in the so called shadowsector have specific practices. They specifically use to mobilize thefamilial resources: human resources, financial resources, materialresources... Thus, bonding ties (inside the family) influencespositively the functioning of the SBEs and widely contribute to itsdevelopment. The shadow sector is deeply flexible and givesstrength tothe formal sector. In this paper we study the case of the constructioncompanies