Parker, Christine; Nielsen, Lehmann Vibeke --- "Explaining Compliance" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011) [2011] ELECD 927

Editor(s): Parker, Christine; Nielsen, Lehmann Vibeke

Title: Explaining Compliance

Sub-title: Business Responses to Regulation

Topics: Corporate Law and Governance; Regulation and Governance

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Date of Publication: 30 November 2011

Number of pages: 400

ISBN (hard cover): 9781848448858

EISBN: 9780857938732

Abstract/Description:

Explaining Compliance consists of sixteen specially commissioned chapters by the world’s leading empirical researchers, examining whether and how businesses comply with regulation that is designed to affect positive behaviour changes.

Each chapter consists of reflective summaries on business compliance with different state or voluntary regulation, and the theoretical lessons to be drawn from it. As a whole, the book develops understanding and explanations of how, why and in what circumstances, firms come to comply with regulation, and when they do not. It also uncovers the complexity, ambiguity and transformation of regulation as it is interpreted, implemented and negotiated by firms, their stakeholders and internal constituencies in everyday business life.

This unique and detailed resource will appeal to academics, graduate students and senior undergraduates in law, political science, sociology, criminology, economics, and psychology, as well as business and interdisciplinary areas such as law and society, and law and economics. Anyone researching business regulation, corporate social responsibility, regulation and compliance, enforcement and compliance, and public administration, will also find this book beneficial.