Call for Chapters
Emerald-ISBE Book Series
Contemporary Issues in Entrepreneurship Research
Volume V
Exploring Criminal and Illegal Enterprise: New Perspectives on Research, Policy & Practice
Edited by Professor Gerard McElwee and Dr Robert Smith
Irrespective of lens, practical, theoretical and / or policy, there is widespread appreciation that entrepreneurs create and /or identify, evaluate, pursue and exploit business opportunities often irrespective of whether or not the opportunity is legal or not. A broad view of entrepreneurship including the criminal will be operationalized in the proposed book.
William Baumol (1990) defined criminal entrepreneurship as the imaginative pursuit of profit without regard to the means used. Obviously Baumol was using the term 'imaginative' to cover a wide variety of social ills. Selected chapters will demonstrate several dimensions of the entrepreneurial processes, such as imagination, creativity, 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 which lead to the generation of business opportunities will be illustrated. Moreover, methods used by criminal entrepreneurs to circumvent barriers to the entrepreneurial process and business development will be highlighted. Issues relating to the formation of crimino-entrepreneurial ventures will be critically discussed. Emerging issues relating to illegal corporate entrepreneurship will be illustrated.
The book will illustrate the dynamics of illegal entrepreneurship and of the practices of criminal entrepreneurs. This book will therefore examine the illegal behaviour of entrepreneurs and will discuss how criminal entrepreneurs acquire information, how they learn from their entrepreneurial experiences, and how they utilize acquired knowledge to develop their organizations.
Subject Coverage:
Illegal or Illicit
Informal Criminal Nexus
Problems of Definition
Methodological Problems
Typologies of Illegal Enterprise
White Collar/Blue Collar/Collarless Illegal Enterprise
Culture and Illegal Enterprise
Corporate Crime
Illegal Entrepreneurial Processes
Policy Reactions/Implications to Illegal Enterprise
John F.S. Bunch, Ph.D.
Coordinator, Institute for Professional Ethics and Responsibility
School of Business
Benedictine College
Atchison, KS 66002
jbunch@benedictine.edu
913-360-7442 (ofc)
913-426-3445 (cell)
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