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Compliance has become key to our contemporary markets, societies, and modes of governance across a variety of public and private domains. While this has stimulated a rich body of empirical and practical expertise on compliance, thus far, there has been no comprehensive understanding of what compliance is or how it influences various fields and sectors. The academic knowledge of compliance has remained siloed along different disciplinary domains, regulatory and legal spheres, and mechanisms and interventions. This handbook bridges these divides to provide the first one-stop overview of what compliance is, how we can best study it, and the core mechanisms that shape it. Written by leading experts, chapters offer perspectives from across law, regulatory studies, management science, criminology, economics, sociology, and psychology. This volume is the definitive and comprehensive account of compliance.
List of contents
Part I. Compliance Concepts and Approaches; Part II. Deterrence and Incapacitation; Part III. Incentives; Part IV. Legitimacy and Social Norms; Part V. Capacity and Opportunity; Part VI. Compliance and Cognition; Part VII. Management and Organizational Processes; Part VIII. Measuring and Evaluating Compliance; Part IX. Analysis of Particular Fields.
About the author
Benjamin van Rooij is Professor of Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine Law School, where he studies compliance and the way law shapes human and organizational conduct. He publishes in leading academic journals as well as in the New York Times, Huffington Post, The Hill and NPR news radio.D. Daniel Sokol is a Professor of Law at the University of Florida, Affiliate Professor, University of Florida Warrington College of Business, and Senior Advisor to White & Case, LLP. Sokol is also among the top 10 most cited antitrust law professors in the past five years and has lectured on compliance to governments, practitioners, and academics across five continents.
Summary
Combining conceptual insights with empirical data, this handbook explains what compliance is, what mechanisms and interventions shape it, how it is studied, and how it functions in practice across different sectors. It is for academics studying compliance and regulation and professionals managing compliance systems or forms of regulatory oversight.
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'This sweeping book is an invaluable compendium of key insights gleaned from hundreds of studies on all aspects of compliance. Tapping into scholarship from a wide array of domains, the authors strip away disciplinary jargon and provide structure to enable readers of all backgrounds to learn how government and private-sector rules are established, monitored, and enforced.' Michael Toffel, Technology and Operations Management, Harvard Business School
Report
'This Handbook is an indispensable resource for academics and practitioners interested in compliance and ethics. The book assembles an impressive array of leading experts who tackle critical issues from a variety of perspectives. It is essential reading for those interested in controlling organizational misconduct.' Jennifer Arlen, New York University School of Law, editor of The Research Handbook on Corporate Crime and Financial Misdealing
