Blurred Lines
摘要
The aim of this chapter is to review the research on collusions between legitimate and illegitimate organizations. Based on previous research and theorizing in criminology, this chapter tries to answer the following question: what are the differences and similarities of legitimate and illegitimate organizations? For this, the chapter discusses organizational characteristics and organizational activities. Organizational characteristics include: organizational strategy, organizational structure, and organizational culture. This chapter focuses on business organizations whose activities lie in the area of the supply of goods and services – and the markets on which these goods and services are traded. The chapter concludes that in the literature, similar concepts have been used to study both legitimate and illegitimate organizations, by studying corporate crime and organized crime. As a result, many similarities between legitimate and illegitimate organizations are found, while these concepts have also been useful to identify differences between the two. Nevertheless, many ambiguities in the legitimate and illegitimate remain.