Criminal entrepreneurship, white-collar criminality, and neutralization theory

Journal of Enterprising Communities

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 300-308

  Gottschalk, Petter ^a   Smith, Robert ^b  

^a BI NORWEGIAN BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Norway)

^b ROBERT GORDON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crime; Criminal entrepreneur; Criminals; Entrepreneurialism; Entrepreneurs; Neutralization theory; White collar crime

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054836590     PISSN: 17506204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17506201111177334     Document Type: Article

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