Bhatt, HimanshuChae, HeewonMaiolini, RiccardoOmizzolo, MArcoCapo, FrancescaOperti, ElisaAudia, Pino G.Dagnino, Giovanni Battista2024-09-252024-09-252024Bhatt, Himanshu, Heewon Chae, Riccardo Maiolini, Marco Omizzolo, Francesca Capo, Elisa Operti, Pino G. Audia, and Giovanni Battista Dagnino. “Organized Crime: Perspectives on Societal Challenges, Threats, and Crises.” Academy of Management Proceedings 2024 (1): 18754.https://doi.org/10.5465/AMPROC.2024.18754symposiumhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14490/343Organized crime groups (OCGs) are important business and institutional actors in several locations around the world. In this symposium, we explore how the presence and activities of OCGs influence emerging societal challenges, threats, and crises. Our investigations use OCGs as a metaphor for pursuit of extreme profit motive and instrumental practices that contribute towards perpetuating social inequalities and exploitation. By digging deeper into the workings of organized crime groups, we develop theoretical and practical implications for what constitutes firms’ ethical and socially responsible behavior.enOrganized crime groupsArticle