Journal
COMPETITION & CHANGE
Volume 21, Issue 2, Pages 94-113Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/1024529417690716
Keywords
Critical Theory; rackets; organized crime; corporate crime; Horkheimer; Adorno; Kirchheimer
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This article explores the parallels between organized crime - specifically racketeering - and the behaviour of corporate and political actors. It reviews the key literature which has developed around the concept of organized crime as business, and business as organized crime, and discusses the nature of rackets in historical and organizational context. The paper takes as its theoretical inspiration the Frankfurt School's notion of a racket society, which Writers such as Adorno, Horkheimer and Kirchheimer developed as part of their Critical Theory of society. As such, it builds on a small but developing field of literature which applies theories of the racket society to contemporary contexts. In this case, the paper provides contemporary examples of racket like behaviour at the corporate/political nexus, and highlights the social harms associated with this.
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