Entrepreneurship in organised crime: career stages in gangs
by Petter Gottschalk, JanTerje Karlsen
International Journal of Innovation and Learning (IJIL), Vol. 6, No. 4, 2009

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.

Online publication date: Fri, 27-Mar-2009

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