Entrepreneurship and Organised Crime : Entrepreneurs in Illegal Business

"Entrepreneurship and Organised Crime" provides a fresh and realistic insight into the problem of organised crime activity and the role of entrepreneurs in illegal business. Petter Gottschalk takes a close look at how some entrepreneurs choose to develop criminal business enterprises. Stage models for criminal entrepreneurs are presented, and entrepreneurial leadership and management are discussed. This book illustrates how so many issues for entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship are similar in legal and illegal business. At the same time, all the cases in the book show how different many of the individual criminal entrepreneurs are. In sum, this book provides a pragmatic view of another kind of entrepreneurship not frequently discussed in a neutral way. This book will be warmly welcomed by scholars and researchers looking for a different perspective of entrepreneurship or interested in criminology. This will also be a good reference tool for students at police academies. 0......Page 1 COVER......Page 2 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 Introduction......Page 8 1. Entrepreneurship in organised crime......Page 11 2. Stage models for criminal entrepreneurs......Page 26 3. Entrepreneurial leadership and management......Page 61 4. Value confi gurations in criminal entrepreneurship......Page 85 5. Entrepreneurial structure and culture......Page 99 6. Entrepreneurial growth in illegal business......Page 124 7. Strategic planning for criminal entrepreneurship......Page 147 8. Knowledge management in criminal entrepreneurship......Page 171 Conclusion......Page 192 References......Page 197 Index......Page 208 'Entrepreneurship and Organised Crime tarnishes the conventional clean and wholesome depiction of entrepreneurs by bringing to life the lived and messy realities of entrepreneurs who operate illegal businesses. Moving beyond the standard textbook positive and celebratory portrayal of entrepreneurs, this volume addresses in a highly readable manner both the entrepreneurial aspects of criminal endeavour as well as the criminal aspects of entrepreneurial endeavour. It is an essential and compelling read for scholars of entrepreneurship and criminology.'- Colin C. Williams, University of Sheffield, UK Presents a fresh insight into the problem of organised crime activity and the role of entrepreneurs in illegal business. This book takes a close look at how some entrepreneurs choose to develop criminal business enterprises. It presents stage models for criminal entrepreneurs, and discusses entrepreneurial leadership and management