Managing Compliance - A Very Brief Introduction

In the wake of spectacular economic scandals, there has been a surge in interest about rule-breaking in organizations and the question of how to prevent such violations. More and more organizations are setting up 'compliance management' positions that are responsible for monitoring compliance with rules, sanctioning deviations from the rules, and establishing and interpreting new rules. The motto here is: from now on, we'll do everything by the book! In this book, we show why the hopes associated with compliance management are often overstated, while the risks are typically underestimated. Compliance management needs to be managed and discursively designed; it cannot ensure complete control.

List of contents

Chapter 1. What is Compliance Management?  A Proposed Definition and Classification Informed by Organizational Theory.- Chapter 2. The Temptations and Limits of an Instrumental-Rational Approach.- Chapter 3. Managing Compliance Management Approaches to Designing Compliance Management.- Chapter 4. Discursive Compliance Management Conclusion.

About the author

Sven Kette is a Senior Consultant at Metaplan (Quickborn/Zurich). He is also a Privatdozent at Lucerne University, where he is involved in teaching and research on organizational studies.
Sebastian Barnutz, holds a Ph. D. in International Studies from the University of Warwick and has been with Metaplan since 2011, currently as a partner. Previously, he was Managing Director at Freie Universität Berlin in the area of Research and Higher Education. His consulting activities focus on strategy and organizational consulting as well as peer group marketing. He works for international clients in the pharmaceutical, medical technology and renewable energy sectors.

Product details

• Authors: Sebastian Barnutz, Sven Kette
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.10.2025
• EAN: 9783032025791
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3202579-1
• No. of pages: 54
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 4 mm x 203 mm
• Weight: 93 g
• Illustrations: XIII, 54 p. 2 illus. in color.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Labour, economic and industrial sociology; Strategisches Management, Soziologie: Arbeit und Beruf, Economic Sociology, Organization, Organisationstheorie und -verhalten, Systems Theory, Compliance Management, Business Strategy and Leadership, Sociology of Organizations and Occupations, Informality, organizational culture, Organizational Control, meta formality, useful illegality, organizational deviation