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
- Part 2 Quantitative Approaches to Measuring Corporate Compliance
- 5 Self-Report Surveys and Factorial Survey Experiments
- 6 The Use of Randomized Experiments for Assessing Corporate Compliance
- 7 Measuring Corporate Compliance: A Guide to Using Available Firm Data to Improve Employee Behavior
- 8 Measuring Compliance Risk and the Emergence of Analytics
- 9 Using Regulatory Inspection Data to Measure Environmental Compliance
- 10 Using Outcomes to Measure Aggregate-Level Compliance – Justifications, Challenges, and Practices
- Part 3 Qualitative Approaches to Measuring Corporate Compliance
- Part 4 Mixed Methods and Building on Existing Compliance Research
- Index
- References
9 - Using Regulatory Inspection Data to Measure Environmental Compliance
from Part 2 - Quantitative Approaches to Measuring Corporate Compliance
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
- Part 2 Quantitative Approaches to Measuring Corporate Compliance
- 5 Self-Report Surveys and Factorial Survey Experiments
- 6 The Use of Randomized Experiments for Assessing Corporate Compliance
- 7 Measuring Corporate Compliance: A Guide to Using Available Firm Data to Improve Employee Behavior
- 8 Measuring Compliance Risk and the Emergence of Analytics
- 9 Using Regulatory Inspection Data to Measure Environmental Compliance
- 10 Using Outcomes to Measure Aggregate-Level Compliance – Justifications, Challenges, and Practices
- Part 3 Qualitative Approaches to Measuring Corporate Compliance
- Part 4 Mixed Methods and Building on Existing Compliance Research
- Index
- References
Summary
Abstract: This chapter discusses how environmental inspection data can and has been used to assess regulatory compliance, focusing primarily on the US, although the issues, methods, and limitations described can apply to environmental programs in other countries with similar inspection and enforcement regimes as well as to other settings where unscheduled inspections or audits play a key role in assessing compliance. The chapter starts by describing the role of regulatory inspections in US environmental programs before explaining where to get inspection data for those programs. It next discusses the key methodological issues with and limitations in using regulatory inspections to examine compliance and provides methods for correcting for those issues. The chapter presents a brief review of empirical evidence on compliance based on studies that use inspection data, focusing primarily on evidence from the US, before concluding.
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- Measuring ComplianceAssessing Corporate Crime and Misconduct Prevention, pp. 153 - 167Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022