Contribution to Book
The Dark Side of Compliance
The Cambridge Handbook on Compliance
(2020)
Abstract
Compliance—from the root “to comply”—is “the set of rules, principles, controls, authorities, offices, and practices designed to ensure that the organization conforms to external and internal norms.” But towards what ends does management use an organization’s compliance system?
Compliance ideally has aspirational goals to at least discourage outright violations of the law, if not to encourage ethical behavior more generally. The methods through which management enforces compliance, however, can increase unethical behavior within the corporation and have, in some cases, incubated and helped perpetuate illegal behavior.
Keywords
- compliance,
- business,
- management,
- norms,
- wrongdoing,
- wide-spread,
- corporate,
- surveillance,
- engagement,
- worker,
- individual,
- ethics,
- ethical
Disciplines
Publication Date
Summer 2020
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Citation Information
J.S. Nelson. "The Dark Side of Compliance" The Cambridge Handbook on Compliance (2020) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/josephine_sandler_nelson/38/