Entrepreneurship in organised crime: career stages in gangs

Petter Gottschalk and JanTerje Karlsen

International Journal of Innovation and Learning, 2009, vol. 6, issue 4, 448-460

Abstract: Most of the entrepreneurship literature seems to engage in a positive enthusiasm about the role of the entrepreneur. There is a need to take a neutral look at how some entrepreneurs engage in illegal business and how entrepreneurship is not always a wholesome and clean endeavour. This is a conceptual research paper presenting a stage model for the criminal career in gangs. Theories of organised crime provide evidence of similarities based on the enterprise paradigm. This paper makes a contribution by linking entrepreneurship to organised crime and by revealing criminal aspects of entrepreneurial endeavour.

Keywords: organised crime; growth stages; theory; innovation; learning; criminal gangs; criminal entrepreneurs; organisational analysis; criminal organisations; entrepreneurship; illegal business; criminal careers. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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