Book contents
- Measuring Compliance
- Measuring Compliance
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- 1 Measuring Compliance: The Challenges in Assessing and Understanding the Interaction between Law and Organizational Misconduct
- Part 1 The Compliance Industry, the State, and Measurement Needs
- 2 The Use and Measurement of Compliance Programs in the Legal and Regulatory Domains
- 3 Measuring Compliance in the Age of Governance: How the Governance Turn Has Impacted Compliance Measurement by the State
- 4 Understanding the Role of Power Distributions in Compliance
- Part 2 Quantitative Approaches to Measuring Corporate Compliance
- Part 3 Qualitative Approaches to Measuring Corporate Compliance
- Part 4 Mixed Methods and Building on Existing Compliance Research
- Index
- References
4 - Understanding the Role of Power Distributions in Compliance
from Part 1 - The Compliance Industry, the State, and Measurement Needs
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 February 2022
- Measuring Compliance
- Measuring Compliance
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- 1 Measuring Compliance: The Challenges in Assessing and Understanding the Interaction between Law and Organizational Misconduct
- Part 1 The Compliance Industry, the State, and Measurement Needs
- 2 The Use and Measurement of Compliance Programs in the Legal and Regulatory Domains
- 3 Measuring Compliance in the Age of Governance: How the Governance Turn Has Impacted Compliance Measurement by the State
- 4 Understanding the Role of Power Distributions in Compliance
- Part 2 Quantitative Approaches to Measuring Corporate Compliance
- Part 3 Qualitative Approaches to Measuring Corporate Compliance
- Part 4 Mixed Methods and Building on Existing Compliance Research
- Index
- References
Summary
Abstract: Companies and the regulators that oversee them assume compliance violations follow a normal distribution based on individual wrongdoing. This assumption causes the focus of compliance programs to be breadth and consistent application of compliance tools. The most significant compliance risks, however, do not conform to this assumption; they are a function of network-driven power law distributions consistent with other aspects of criminal behavior. To more completely understand and measure compliance lapses, and therefore prevent them, companies should focus on ethical influencers within their organizations who create outsized, interconnected risk.
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- Measuring ComplianceAssessing Corporate Crime and Misconduct Prevention, pp. 71 - 90Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022
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