Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Compliance
- The Cambridge Handbook of Compliance
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- 1 Introduction: Compliance as the Interaction between Rules and Behavior
- Part I Compliance Concepts and Approaches
- 2 Compliance as Costs and Benefits
- 3 The Professionalization of Compliance
- 4 From Responsive Regulation to Ecological Compliance: Meta-regulation and the Existential Challenge of Corporate Compliance
- 5 Behavioral Ethics as Compliance
- 6 Constructing the Content and Meaning of Law and Compliance
- 7 Compliance as Operations Management
- 8 Compliance and Contestation
- 9 Compliance as Management
- 10 Compliance as Liability Risk Management
- 11 Criminalized Compliance
- 12 Supply Chain Compliance
- 13 Regulatory Compliance in a Global Perspective: Developing Countries, Emerging Markets and the Role of International Development Institutions
- 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
- References
4 - From Responsive Regulation to Ecological Compliance: Meta-regulation and the Existential Challenge of Corporate Compliance
from Part I - Compliance Concepts and Approaches
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 May 2021
- The Cambridge Handbook of Compliance
- The Cambridge Handbook of Compliance
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- 1 Introduction: Compliance as the Interaction between Rules and Behavior
- Part I Compliance Concepts and Approaches
- 2 Compliance as Costs and Benefits
- 3 The Professionalization of Compliance
- 4 From Responsive Regulation to Ecological Compliance: Meta-regulation and the Existential Challenge of Corporate Compliance
- 5 Behavioral Ethics as Compliance
- 6 Constructing the Content and Meaning of Law and Compliance
- 7 Compliance as Operations Management
- 8 Compliance and Contestation
- 9 Compliance as Management
- 10 Compliance as Liability Risk Management
- 11 Criminalized Compliance
- 12 Supply Chain Compliance
- 13 Regulatory Compliance in a Global Perspective: Developing Countries, Emerging Markets and the Role of International Development Institutions
- 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
- References
Summary
Abstract: This chapter revisits the significance of responsive regulation for theories of compliance. It shows how responsive regulation’s theory of compliance recognises both multiple motivations for compliance and plural actors who help negotiate and construct compliance. It argues that responsive regulation theory implies responsive compliance and that this can help build possibilities for deliberative democratic responsibility and accountability of both businesses and regulators. This is the idea that I previously labelled the meta-regulation of the ‘open corporation’. This chapter concludes that since business activity and indeed human development now face the existential challenge of socio-ecological disruption and collapse in which profit-oriented commercial activity is a significant driver, theories of compliance need to expand to concern themselves with how whole markets and industries can be made responsive to both social and ecological embeddedness. Regulatory compliance scholars need to pay attention to how networks of interacting business, government and civil society and social movement actors can influence business activity profoundly enough to shift the very nature of ‘business as usual’. The chapter therefore proposes the need for ‘ecological compliance’ as a development of Ayres and Braithwaite’s analysis of compliance.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Compliance , pp. 37 - 49Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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