joint enterprise
Partnership in action
Joint enterprise is a legal doctrine holding all participants in a criminal act responsible for its outcomes, even if only one person committed the specific crime.
If three people plan a robbery and one commits murder during it, all three may be charged with murder.
The doctrine is controversial because it can impose severe sentences on those who didn't directly cause harm.
In business contexts, joint enterprise simply means a collaborative undertaking between parties: The two companies formed a joint enterprise to develop the property.
- complicityShared criminal involvement
- secondary liabilityLegal fault through another
- co-conspiratorPartner in wrongdoing
- partners in crimeCollaborators in wrongdoing
- common purposeGoal held by many
collaboration · collective action · mob mentality · joint venture · partnership · shared blame · culpability · guilty mind · collusion · concerted action · accessory · co-defendant · gang activity · strategic alliance · criminal liability · cooperative · business collaboration · syndicate
joint enterprisecompetition
Struggle for supremacy
rivalry · hostile takeover · zero-sum game · conflict · antagonism