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Entrepreneurship in organised crime: career stages in gangs

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  • Petter Gottschalk
  • JanTerje Karlsen

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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.

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  • Petter Gottschalk & JanTerje Karlsen, 2009. "Entrepreneurship in organised crime: career stages in gangs," International Journal of Innovation and Learning, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 6(4), pages 448-460.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijilea:v:6:y:2009:i:4:p:448-460
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    1. Costin-Dan DAVID & Danut-Dumitru DUMITRASCU, 2021. "Organised Crime As An Entrepreneurial Activity," Proceedings of the INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE, Faculty of Management, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania, vol. 15(1), pages 506-513, November.
    2. Eric Gedajlovic & Benson Honig & Curt B. Moore & G. Tyge Payne & Mike Wright, 2013. "Social Capital and Entrepreneurship: A Schema and Research Agenda," Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, , vol. 37(3), pages 455-478, May.

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