What goes into Criminal-Organisations Countering Intelligence?
(2022) UNDK02 20212Department 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)
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- author
- Ursing, Carl LU
- supervisor
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- Johan Matz LU
- organization
- alternative title
- A Case Study of the Vårby Network, EncroChat and Organisational Change as Discourse.
- course
- UNDK02 20212
- year
- 2022
- 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
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