Crime and Its Repercussions in Business and Social Environment: A Narrative Analysis
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Crime, Business, Society, Economy, Media narrativesAbstract
This study explores how crime affects social cohesion, business performance, and economic stability by analyzing how media narratives construct and interconnect these dimensions. The research seeks to explain how criminality generates structural consequences that undermine community trust, influence organizational decision-making, and contribute to macroeconomic fragility. A qualitative design integrating narrative configuration and semantic content analysis was applied to thirteen journalistic narratives using ATLAS.ti. A mixed coding procedure combined deductive theoretical categories—crime, society, business, and economy—with inductive emergent codes. Findings reveal a sequential pattern: in the social sphere, crime is associated with insecurity and the erosion of community trust; in the business sphere, it relates to increased operational costs, extortion, and constrained investment; and in the economic sphere, it connects to illicit capital flows and GDP contraction. Co-occurrence matrices and a Sankey diagram visualize how discourse flows evolve from criminal events to social distrust and economic vulnerability. The study provides a comprehensive narrative–semantic model explaining the progression from social vulnerability to business disruption and economic consequences. It offers theoretical and policy insights to strengthen community resilience and business sustainability and concludes with practical implications, methodological limitations, and directions for future research on the societal and economic repercussions of crime.
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