Narconomics : how to run a drug cartel /
"How does a budding cartel boss succeed (and survive) in the $300 billion illegal drug business? By learning from the best, of course. From creating brand value to fine-tuning customer service, the folks running cartels have been attentive students of the strategy and tactics used by corporatio...
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Published: |
PublicAffairs,
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Publisher Address: | New York : |
Publication Dates: | [2016] |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Edition: | First edition. |
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Summary: |
"How does a budding cartel boss succeed (and survive) in the $300 billion illegal drug business? By learning from the best, of course. From creating brand value to fine-tuning customer service, the folks running cartels have been attentive students of the strategy and tactics used by corporations such as Walmart, McDonald's, and Coca-Cola. And what can government learn to combat this scourge? By analyzing the cartels as companies, law enforcers might better understand how they work ... [and have more success in efforts] to win the war against this global, highly organized business"--Amazon.com. |
Carrier Form: | vii, 278 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: |
9781610395830 (hardcover) : 1610395832 (hardcover) 9781610395847 (ebook) 1610395840 (ebook) |
Index Number: | HV5801 |
CLC: | D771.288-05 |
Call Number: | D771.288-05/W142 |
Contents: |
Cartel incorporated -- Cocaine's supply chain: the cockroach effect and the 30,000 percent markup -- Competition vs. collusion: why merger is sometimes better than murder -- The people problems of a drug cartel: when James Bond meets Mr. Bean -- PR and the mad men of Sinaloa: why cartels care about corporate social responsibility -- Offshoring: the perks of doing business on the mosquito coast -- The promise and perils of franchising: how the mob has borrowed from McDonald's -- Innovating ahead of the law: research and development in the "legal highs" industry -- Ordering a line online: how internet shopping has improved drug dealers' customer service -- Diversifying into new markets: from drug smuggling to people smuggling -- Coming full circle: how legalization threatens the drug lords -- Why economists make the best police officers. |