Exploring Criminal and Illegal Enterprise.

Front Cover -- Exploring Criminal and Illegal Enterprise: New Perspectives on Research, Policy &amp -- Practice -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Series Editor's Preface -- Part I: An Introduction to Illegal Entrepreneurship: Some Theoretical and Philosophical Considerations -- Towards a Nuanced Typology of Illegal Entrepreneurship: A Theoretical and Conceptual Overview -- An Introduction and Overview -- Assessing the Contribution of Baumol's Framework -- How the Chapters Expand the Baumolian Typology -- Some (Pre)Concluding Thoughts -- References -- Out of the Margins: Evaluating the Scale of Employment in Informal Enterprises in Developing and Transition Economies -- Introduction -- Informal Sector Enterprise: Definitions and Perspectives -- Defining Informal Sector Enterprise -- Perspectives towards Informal Sector Enterprise -- Modernisation Theory -- Neo-Liberal Theory -- Political Economy Theory -- Previous Evaluations of the Competing Theories -- Methodology: Examining Variations in the Scale of Employment in Informal Sector Enterprise -- Results: Employment in Informal Sector Enterprise in Developing and Transition Economies -- Exploratory Analysis: Evaluating the Competing Theories -- Evaluating the Modernisation Hypothesis -- Evaluating the Neo-Liberal Hypothesis -- Evaluating the Political Economy Hypothesis -- Conclusions -- References -- Part II: Criminal types and typologies: The role of context, places and spaces -- Modelling Entrepreneurial Endeavour in the Nexus between Terrorism and Organised Crime: Does Supporting Terrorism Present a... -- Introduction -- Literature Review -- Structural Similarities - Organised Crime Groups and Terrorists -- Forms of Co-operation between Terrorists and Organised Criminals -- Motivational Differences -- Tensions -- Entrepreneurial Considerations.

Culture as a Facet of Criminal Entrepreneurship -- A Potential Model -- Distance -- Reputation -- Calculated Risk -- Deception -- World Events -- Illustrating the Potential Model -- Model Discussion -- Conclusions -- Understanding the 'Initial Nexus' from an Entrepreneurial Perspective -- Potential for Further Research -- Notes -- References -- White-Collar, Blue-Collar and Collarless Crime: The Complicity of Victims in 'Victimless Crime' -- Introduction -- Entrepreneurs and Moral Deviance -- Crime and White-Collar Workers -- What Is White-Collar Crime? -- Entrepreneurs and a Lexicon of Justification -- Making Sense of and Illuminating the Moral Nature of Collared Crime -- Social Conditioning and the Gullible Victim -- Productivity and Street Level Entrepreneurs -- New Markets and the 'Collared Criminals' -- White-Collar Crimes -- Blue-Collar Crimes -- Collarless Crimes -- Conclusion -- References -- Creative Compliance, Constructive Compliance: Corporate Environmental Crime and the Criminal Entrepreneur -- Introduction -- The Nature of Corporate Environmental Responsibility -- Defining Corporate Environmental Responsibility and Environmental Damage -- Failures in Voluntary Compliance -- Green Wash and Criminal Entrepreneurship -- Ineffective Justice: Shell and the Deer Park Refinery -- Reparation for Environmental Damage -- Enforcing CER -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Stolen to Order! Tractor Theft as an Emerging International Criminal Enterprise -- Introduction -- Documenting Knowledge on Tractor Theft -- A Review of the Academic Literature -- The Farmer as Entrepreneur and/or Criminal -- Market-Related Issues -- An Analysis of the Tractor Theft Market -- A Review of Available Documentary Evidence -- Design/Methodology/Approach -- Documentary Research and Immersion -- Narrative Inquiry -- Case Stories, Analysis and Findings -- The Stories.

Analysis -- An Analysis of the Micro-stories -- Business Model Canvas Analysis -- Discussion -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Websites -- Documentary Evidence -- The Criminal Entrepreneur in David Peace's Red Riding -- Introduction -- Men and Masculinities -- Cop Culture and Representations of Masculinity -- Police Corruption -- The Criminal Entrepreneur -- Methodology -- In the Year of Our Lord: David Peace's Red Riding -- Red Riding and Hegemonic Masculinity -- John Dawson - Entrepreneur -- Conclusion -- References -- Dark Matters: The Institutional Entrepreneurship of Illicit and Illegal Cyberspace -- Introduction -- Cyberspace and Digital Entrepreneurship -- Digital Entrepreneurship and Legal/Illicit Enterprises -- Grey Areas in Digital Entrepreneurship -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Learning from the Worst: The U.S. Prison System as a University of Destructive Utility -- Introduction -- Learning It? -- Context for Criminal Entrepreneurship -- Legal Entrepreneurship by Criminals -- Illegal Entrepreneurship Outside of Prison -- Illegal Entrepreneurship Inside Prison -- Methodology -- Typology of Inmates and Other Barriers -- Findings - Results -- Analysis -- Conclusions and Recommendations -- Notes -- References -- List of Personal Interviews Referenced in this Chapter -- Conversations with a 'Small-Town' Criminal Entrepreneur: A Case Study -- Introduction -- Literature Review -- On the Morality and Criminality of Entrepreneurship -- On Risk-Taking, Taking Risks and the Law -- On Criminal and Entrepreneurial Capital -- Methodological Musings Underpinning the Conversations and the Case -- On Storytelling and Adopting a Social Constructionist Approach -- On Adopting a Conversational Methodological Approach -- Articulating Our Approach to the Conversational Method.

Greg's Story (a Personality Profile Drawn from the Conversations and Information from Other Members of the Community) -- Findings -- Extracting Themes from the Conversation -- Business Skills -- Entrepreneurial Orientation -- Networking -- Opportunity Recognition -- Analysis -- Conclusions and Implications -- Notes -- References -- Value for Whom? Exploring the Value of Informal Entrepreneurial Activities in Post-Socialist Contexts -- Introduction -- A Conceptual Review of the Value of Entrepreneurial Activities -- Facets of Value Creation of Entrepreneurship -- The Institutional Embeddedness of Value Creation -- Research Approach towards the Value of IEA -- Research Context: Post-Socialist Borderlands -- Sampling and Data Collection -- Methodological Approach and Data Analysis -- An Empirical Exploration of the Value of Informal Entrepreneurial Activities in European Post-Socialist Borderlands -- The Logic of the Market - Economic Value -- The Logic of the Community: Economic and Social Value -- The Logic of the State - Short versus Long-Run Value -- Outlook -- Acknowledgement -- References -- About the Editors.

This book examines the illegal behaviour of entrepreneurs and discusses how criminal entrepreneurs acquire information, learn from their entrepreneurial experiences, and utilize acquired knowledge to develop their organizations.

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