Front Cover -- Exploring Criminal and Illegal Enterprise: New Perspectives on Research, Policy & Practice -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Series Editor's Preface -- Part I: An Introduction to Illegal Entrepreneurship: Some Theoretical and Philosophical Considerations -- Towards a Nuanced Typology of Illegal Entrepreneurship: A Theoretical and Conceptual Overview -- An Introduction and Overview -- Assessing the Contribution of Baumol's Framework -- How the Chapters Expand the Baumolian Typology -- Some (Pre)Concluding Thoughts -- References -- Out of the Margins: Evaluating the Scale of Employment in Informal Enterprises in Developing and Transition Economies -- Introduction -- Informal Sector Enterprise: Definitions and Perspectives -- Defining Informal Sector Enterprise -- Perspectives towards Informal Sector Enterprise -- Modernisation Theory -- Neo-Liberal Theory -- Political Economy Theory -- Previous Evaluations of the Competing Theories -- Methodology: Examining Variations in the Scale of Employment in Informal Sector Enterprise -- Results: Employment in Informal Sector Enterprise in Developing and Transition Economies -- Exploratory Analysis: Evaluating the Competing Theories -- Evaluating the Modernisation Hypothesis -- Evaluating the Neo-Liberal Hypothesis -- Evaluating the Political Economy Hypothesis -- Conclusions -- References -- Part II: Criminal types and typologies: The role of context, places and spaces -- Modelling Entrepreneurial Endeavour in the Nexus between Terrorism and Organised Crime: Does Supporting Terrorism Present a... -- Introduction -- Literature Review -- Structural Similarities - Organised Crime Groups and Terrorists -- Forms of Co-operation between Terrorists and Organised Criminals -- Motivational Differences -- Tensions -- Entrepreneurial Considerations.

Culture as a Facet of Criminal Entrepreneurship -- A Potential Model -- Distance -- Reputation -- Calculated Risk -- Deception -- World Events -- Illustrating the Potential Model -- Model Discussion -- Conclusions -- Understanding the 'Initial Nexus' from an Entrepreneurial Perspective -- Potential for Further Research -- Notes -- References -- White-Collar, Blue-Collar and Collarless Crime: The Complicity of Victims in 'Victimless Crime' -- Introduction -- Entrepreneurs and Moral Deviance -- Crime and White-Collar Workers -- What Is White-Collar Crime? -- Entrepreneurs and a Lexicon of Justification -- Making Sense of and Illuminating the Moral Nature of Collared Crime -- Social Conditioning and the Gullible Victim -- Productivity and Street Level Entrepreneurs -- New Markets and the 'Collared Criminals' -- White-Collar Crimes -- Blue-Collar Crimes -- Collarless Crimes -- Conclusion -- References -- Creative Compliance, Constructive Compliance: Corporate Environmental Crime and the Criminal Entrepreneur -- Introduction -- The Nature of Corporate Environmental Responsibility -- Defining Corporate Environmental Responsibility and Environmental Damage -- Failures in Voluntary Compliance -- Green Wash and Criminal Entrepreneurship -- Ineffective Justice: Shell and the Deer Park Refinery -- Reparation for Environmental Damage -- Enforcing CER -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Stolen to Order! Tractor Theft as an Emerging International Criminal Enterprise -- Introduction -- Documenting Knowledge on Tractor Theft -- A Review of the Academic Literature -- The Farmer as Entrepreneur and/or Criminal -- Market-Related Issues -- An Analysis of the Tractor Theft Market -- A Review of Available Documentary Evidence -- Design/Methodology/Approach -- Documentary Research and Immersion -- Narrative Inquiry -- Case Stories, Analysis and Findings -- The Stories.

Analysis -- An Analysis of the Micro-stories -- Business Model Canvas Analysis -- Discussion -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Websites -- Documentary Evidence -- The Criminal Entrepreneur in David Peace's Red Riding -- Introduction -- Men and Masculinities -- Cop Culture and Representations of Masculinity -- Police Corruption -- The Criminal Entrepreneur -- Methodology -- In the Year of Our Lord: David Peace's Red Riding -- Red Riding and Hegemonic Masculinity -- John Dawson - Entrepreneur -- Conclusion -- References -- Dark Matters: The Institutional Entrepreneurship of Illicit and Illegal Cyberspace -- Introduction -- Cyberspace and Digital Entrepreneurship -- Digital Entrepreneurship and Legal/Illicit Enterprises -- Grey Areas in Digital Entrepreneurship -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Learning from the Worst: The U.S. Prison System as a University of Destructive Utility -- Introduction -- Learning It? -- Context for Criminal Entrepreneurship -- Legal Entrepreneurship by Criminals -- Illegal Entrepreneurship Outside of Prison -- Illegal Entrepreneurship Inside Prison -- Methodology -- Typology of Inmates and Other Barriers -- Findings - Results -- Analysis -- Conclusions and Recommendations -- Notes -- References -- List of Personal Interviews Referenced in this Chapter -- Conversations with a 'Small-Town' Criminal Entrepreneur: A Case Study -- Introduction -- Literature Review -- On the Morality and Criminality of Entrepreneurship -- On Risk-Taking, Taking Risks and the Law -- On Criminal and Entrepreneurial Capital -- Methodological Musings Underpinning the Conversations and the Case -- On Storytelling and Adopting a Social Constructionist Approach -- On Adopting a Conversational Methodological Approach -- Articulating Our Approach to the Conversational Method.

Greg's Story (a Personality Profile Drawn from the Conversations and Information from Other Members of the Community) -- Findings -- Extracting Themes from the Conversation -- Business Skills -- Entrepreneurial Orientation -- Networking -- Opportunity Recognition -- Analysis -- Conclusions and Implications -- Notes -- References -- Value for Whom? Exploring the Value of Informal Entrepreneurial Activities in Post-Socialist Contexts -- Introduction -- A Conceptual Review of the Value of Entrepreneurial Activities -- Facets of Value Creation of Entrepreneurship -- The Institutional Embeddedness of Value Creation -- Research Approach towards the Value of IEA -- Research Context: Post-Socialist Borderlands -- Sampling and Data Collection -- Methodological Approach and Data Analysis -- An Empirical Exploration of the Value of Informal Entrepreneurial Activities in European Post-Socialist Borderlands -- The Logic of the Market - Economic Value -- The Logic of the Community: Economic and Social Value -- The Logic of the State - Short versus Long-Run Value -- Outlook -- Acknowledgement -- References -- About the Editors.