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Productive vs. Destructive Entrepreneurship: Why Unethical and Illegal Enterprises Often Accumulate Wealth Faster Than Legitimate Ventures?

This paper examines why unethical and illegal enterprises often accumulate wealth faster than legitimate businesses. Using Baumol’s framework of productive, unproductive, and destructive entrepreneurship, the study combines a systematic literature review, case studies, and a perception-based survey. The findings show that weak institutions, corruption,
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Police department design, political pressure, and racial inequality in arrests

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper theorizes a source of bias in discretionary arrests: strategic limits on police officer learning. Officers have a variety of tactics at their disposal besides arrest that they use for less serious offenses when they judge the underlying behavior to be less severe. In departments led by a chief with special expertise in crime control,
Andrew J. McCall
wiley   +1 more source

The refinement of drug safety governance based on contradiction matrix. [PDF]

BMC Public Health
Yao Y, Yang F, Zhang W.
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Dominant Stockholder Illegality and Enterprise Value : Focusing on Korean Firm Cases

Asia Pacific Journal of Business Review, 2017
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What political theory can learn from conceptual engineering: The case of “corruption”

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Conceptual change is commonplace in political theory. Recent scholarship argues that improving a concept, or “engineering” it, can sharpen its normative and explanatory power. This article illustrates what political theory can learn from conceptual engineering (CE) by examining the evolution of “corruption” as a case study.
Emanuela Ceva, Patrizia Pedrini
wiley   +1 more source

Research on the configurational paths for establishing high-level municipal industry-education consortiums in China: from the perspective of symbiosis theory. [PDF]

PLoS One
Qu S, Zhou G, Chen Y.
europepmc   +1 more source

Making Mining Licit: Gold, Commodification, and the Everyday Performance of Law in Colombia

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ethnographies of resource‐making have shown that the extraction of resource value from objects is premised on obviating the emplaced lifeworlds that surrounded objects before they traveled to consumer markets. Much of this literature looks at such supply‐chain disentanglement from the viewpoint of corporate and formal regulatory practices ...
Jesse Jonkman
wiley   +1 more source

Plausibly deniable - Domestic cannabis cultivation and the private rented sector in the UK. [PDF]

Trends Organ Crime
L'Hoiry X, Rugg J, Parton LE, Antonopoulos GA.   +3 more
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The Construction of an Environmental Villain: A Discourse Analysis of Upland Maize Farming in Thailand

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since the mid‐2010s, Thai public discourse has villainised upland maize cultivation in northern Thailand for deforestation and environmental degradation through the popular imagery of bald mountains. The attention has prompted a new wave of land‐use interventions urging upland smallholders to replace maize with trees and perennials.
Pin Pravalprukskul, Cecilie Friis, Thilde Bech Bruun   +2 more
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Business Realism—A New Account of Morality and Power in Business Ethics

Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article introduces a new account of morality and power in business ethics called “business realism”. To this end, it first outlines the political realism literature—a view in political philosophy that deals with the question of the relation between morality and politics.
Iwan Alijew
wiley   +1 more source