BEYOND MANAGEMENT COMPLIANCE

This book argues that management compliance is not sufficient for business legitimacy. True legitimacy is a matter of a company's stakeholders' values and actions being aligned with those of broader society. Alignment with laws, rules, and regulations is only a matter of corporate compliance necessary to secure the legal licensing to operate, and is distinct from conformance with the norms, values, and ethics necessary to secure the social license to operate.

Simply 'not violating laws' is not enough to make people trust a company. The movement from simple 'compliance' to 'conformity' is crucial — compliance may secure the legal license, but conformity secures the social one. It is for this reason that Beyond Management Compliance takes a criminological rather than a legal view regarding criminal liability. It is very different and far more successful to respond to conformance pressures (such as norms, values, and ethical issues) by adaptation than by strategy.

Through an in-depth and case-study oriented exploration of bottom-up control involving change champions taking on the role of in-organization entrepreneurs, readers will learn the ways in which different types of control mechanisms — such as whistleblowing, transparency, resource constraints, and organizational culture — can be used to monitor, measure, and evaluate executives' avoidance of deviant behaviors, and influence them towards corporate conformance in efficient, effective, and socially acceptable ways.

Contents:

• About the Author
• Introduction
• Alignment with Laws and Norms:
  • Management Compliance Characteristics
  • Organizational Conformity Characteristics
  • Business Legitimacy Characteristics
• Corruption in Sport Perspectives :
  • Seven Causes of Corruption in Sport
  • Consequences of Corruption in Sport
  • Actions against Corruption in Sport
  • Issues in District Court Verdict
• The Prosecuted Sport President :
  • Replacing Defense Lawyers at Appeal
  • The International Biathlon Union
  • Court Verdict of Sixty-Seven Pages
  • The Rotten Apple Metaphor
• Case: BMW as Biathlon Sponsor:
  • Concern by Sponsors as Stakeholders
  • Notification to Compliance Officer
  • Compliance — Conformity — Transparency
  • Ice Communications as Biathlon Sponsor
• Facing Harassment Accusations:
  • Top Academic Coming to Norway
  • CMS Kluge Report Accusation Findings
  • CMS Kluge Report Maturity Assessment
  • Maturity Assessment Outcome
  • Problematic Internal Investigation
  • Preparing for Oslo Court Trial
  • Reporting from Oslo Court Trial
• The Fraud Investigation Business:
  • Deviance by Corporate Investigators
  • Investigation Compliance Characteristics
  • Investigation Conformity Characteristics
• Case: Sanctions against Russia:
  • Boycotted versus Blacklisted Companies
  • Conformity Debate in the Media
  • State for Compliance not Conformity
  • Some Conformity beyond Compliance
• Case: Sanctions against Myanmar:
  • Challenging the Social License
  • Bestseller's Convenience Themes
  • The Fraud Investigation Report
  • Regaining the Social License
• Case: Member Revolt in Housing:
  • Criminal Conformity Deviance
  • Obos Deviance Member Revolt
  • Social License Recovery Measures
  • Student Interviews with Stakeholders
  • Internal Investigation Outcome
  • Assessment of Offender Convenience
  • Assessment of Examination Maturity
• JFC Research Articles:
  • The Crime Convenience Triangle
  • Research Method for Reviewing Articles
  • Research Result: Crime Motives
  • Research Result: Crime Opportunities
  • Research Result: Willingness Attitudes
  • Future Research on Offender Perspectives
• Deviant Behavior Willingness:
  • Research Method for Reviewing Articles
  • Research Result: Attitudes in JEC Articles
  • Research Result: Attitudes in JWCCC Articles
  • Research Result: Attitudes in JFC Articles
  • Future Research on Crime Justification
• Conclusion
• Index

Readership: University students of criminology, criminal justice, law, business, and sociology, as well as law firms, auditing firms, and consulting firms.