Mafia Organizations

Makes sense of mafias as organizations, via a pioneering comparative analysis of seven mafia groups from around the world.

List of contents

1. What type of organization are mafias?; 2. Organizational architecture; 3. Organizational orders; 4. Organizational orders and the use of violence; 5. Mafia rules; 6. Mafia organizational dilemmas.

About the author

Maurizio Catino is Professor of Sociology of Organizations at the Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, and Visiting Scholar in the Department of Sociology at New York University. His writing has been published in Organization Studies, European Journal of Sociology, Scandinavian Journal of Management, and Cognition Technology and Work, amongst others. His most recent book is Organizational Myopia (Cambridge, 2013).

Summary

Makes sense of mafias as organizations, via a pioneering comparative analysis of seven mafia groups from around the world. This collative study of historical accounts, official data, investigative sources, and interviews will aid students and scholars of sociology, organizational studies and criminology to better understand how mafias work.

Product details

• Authors: Maurizio Catino, Maurizio (Universit... degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca) Catino, Maurizio (Universita Degli Studi DI Milano Catino, Maurizio (Universita degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca) Catino, Catino Maurizio
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9781108466967
• ISBN: 978-1-108-46696-7
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 230 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; Management, Strafrecht, Unternehmensorganisation, Organisiertes Verbrechen, Organisationstheorie, Gangster, Management und Managementtechniken, Eigentum und Organisation von Unternehmen, True Crime, Strafrecht, allgemein, Organisationstheorie und -verhalten, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior, TRUE CRIME / General, Business / Management, Verbrechen / Kriminalfälle, Kriminalgeschichte - Kriminalgeschichten, Verbrechen / Organisiertes Verbrechen, Organizational theory & behaviour, Organized crime, Organizational theory and behaviour, Ownership and organization of enterprises, Ownership & Organization Of Enterprises