Skip to main content

LUP Student Papers

LUND UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

What goes into Criminal-Organisations Countering Intelligence?

Ursing, Carl LU (2022) UNDK02 20212
Department of Political Science
Abstract
As intelligence-led law enforcement becomes more common, criminal networks have adapted and used various methods to disrupt law enforcement’s collection of intelligence. This dynamic has led to non-state actors’ use of counterintelligence as an emerging research field as it's critical to understand how criminal organizations can try to disrupt or neutralize the intelligence cycle This study aims to explain how the Vårby Network, a criminal organization in Stockholm, Sweden, organized the implementation of counterintelligence tactics using Heracleous and Barretts' theory on Organizational Change as Discourse. By dissecting the discourse, the study demonstrates how an organization's discursive frameworks determine who and how... (More)
As intelligence-led law enforcement becomes more common, criminal networks have adapted and used various methods to disrupt law enforcement’s collection of intelligence. This dynamic has led to non-state actors’ use of counterintelligence as an emerging research field as it's critical to understand how criminal organizations can try to disrupt or neutralize the intelligence cycle This study aims to explain how the Vårby Network, a criminal organization in Stockholm, Sweden, organized the implementation of counterintelligence tactics using Heracleous and Barretts' theory on Organizational Change as Discourse. By dissecting the discourse, the study demonstrates how an organization's discursive frameworks determine who and how counter-intelligence tactics are implemented. When employing counter-intelligence tactics, the organization relied on organizational structures rather than interpretive schemes. The difference in the sophistication of tactics appeared to have an impact on how they were implemented. The study also demonstrates how relying on an organization's structure to ease implementation results in varying outcomes depending on the level of sophistication. (Less)
Please use this url to cite or link to this publication:
author
Ursing, Carl LU
supervisor
organization
alternative title
A Case Study of the Vårby Network, EncroChat and Organisational Change as Discourse.
course
UNDK02 20212
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Counter-Intelligence, Criminal Organisation, Hostile Non-State Actors, Organizational Change as Discourse, Vårby Network, Sweden
language
English
id
9077495
date added to LUP
2022-04-06 08:37:08
date last changed
2022-04-06 08:37:08
@misc{9077495,
  abstract     = {{As intelligence-led law enforcement becomes more common, criminal networks have adapted and used various methods to disrupt law enforcement’s collection of intelligence. This dynamic has led to non-state actors’ use of counterintelligence as an emerging research field as it's critical to understand how criminal organizations can try to disrupt or neutralize the intelligence cycle This study aims to explain how the Vårby Network, a criminal organization in Stockholm, Sweden, organized the implementation of counterintelligence tactics using Heracleous and Barretts' theory on Organizational Change as Discourse. By dissecting the discourse, the study demonstrates how an organization's discursive frameworks determine who and how counter-intelligence tactics are implemented. When employing counter-intelligence tactics, the organization relied on organizational structures rather than interpretive schemes. The difference in the sophistication of tactics appeared to have an impact on how they were implemented. The study also demonstrates how relying on an organization's structure to ease implementation results in varying outcomes depending on the level of sophistication.}},
  author       = {{Ursing, Carl}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{What goes into Criminal-Organisations Countering Intelligence?}},
  year         = {{2022}},
}