Exploring Criminal and Illegal Enterprise: New Perspectives on Research, Policy and Practice

Product Description
This book examines the illegal behavior of entrepreneurs and discusses how criminal entrepreneurs acquire information, learn from their entrepreneurial experiences, and utilize acquired knowledge to develop their organizations. The chapters demonstrate several dimensions of the entrepreneurial processes, such as imagination, innovation, calculated risk taking, alertness to opportunities, opportunity identification, as well as resource assemblage and leverage to exploit an opportunity - all in a criminal context. Illegal methods used by entrepreneurs to identify solutions to problems that lead to the generation of business opportunities are illustrated. Moreover, methods used by criminal entrepreneurs to circumvent barriers to the entrepreneurial process and business developments are highlighted. Issues relating to the formation of crimino-entrepreneurial ventures are critically discussed. Emerging issues relating to illegal corporate entrepreneurship are illustrated.
Review
Editors McElwee and Smith present a collection of academic papers and scholarly articles focused on both the dynamics of illegal entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurial practices of criminals. The editors have organized the contributions that make up the main body of the text in two parts devoted to theoretical and philosophical considerations regarding illegal entrepreneurship and the role of context, places, and spaces in examining criminal types and typologies. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. --Annotation ©2015 Ringgold Inc. Portland, OR (protoview.com)
About the Author
Gerard McElwee - Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Robert Smith - Robert Gordon University, UK