The Cambridge Handbook of Compliance

This one-stop, interdisciplinary overview of compliance explains what compliance is, how it is studied, and what factors shape it.

Benjamin van Rooij (Edited by), D. Daniel Sokol (Edited by)

9781009280129, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 4 August 2022

1037 pages
25.3 x 17.8 x 4.5 cm, 2.03 kg

'This sweeping book is an invaluable compendium of key insights gleaned from hundreds of studies on all aspects of compliance. Tapping into scholarship from a wide array of domains, the authors strip away disciplinary jargon and provide structure to enable readers of all backgrounds to learn how government and private-sector rules are established, monitored, and enforced.' Michael Toffel, Technology and Operations Management, Harvard Business School

Compliance has become key to our contemporary markets, societies, and modes of governance across a variety of public and private domains. While this has stimulated a rich body of empirical and practical expertise on compliance, thus far, there has been no comprehensive understanding of what compliance is or how it influences various fields and sectors. The academic knowledge of compliance has remained siloed along different disciplinary domains, regulatory and legal spheres, and mechanisms and interventions. This handbook bridges these divides to provide the first one-stop overview of what compliance is, how we can best study it, and the core mechanisms that shape it. Written by leading experts, chapters offer perspectives from across law, regulatory studies, management science, criminology, economics, sociology, and psychology. This volume is the definitive and comprehensive account of compliance.

Part I. Compliance Concepts and Approaches
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.

Subject Areas: Taxation & duties law [LNU], Environment law [LNKJ], Criminal law & procedure [LNF], Company, commercial & competition law [LNC], Business ethics & social responsibility [KJG], Taxation [KFFD1], Risk assessment [GPQD]