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Reconceptualising Corporate Compliance

Responsibility, Freedom and the Law

Anna Donovan author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:20th Oct '22

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A comprehensive and interdisciplinary treatment of the problem of corporate compliance failure.

This book offers a comprehensive examination of the issues surrounding corporate compliance. Should corporations comply with the spirit or the letter of the law? What role does compliance play in a capitalist market economy? Why is it that otherwise law-abiding citizens are willing to implement corporate compliance strategies that are seemingly at odds with their personal values? Dr Donovan responds to these questions and more, providing a persuasive argument for the legitimate role of spirited compliance within a market economy. In doing so, she employs the lens of classical liberal ideology, challenging the widespread view that technical compliance is simply ‘capitalism.’ In an examination that has relevance beyond the compliance arena, the author also explores how the architecture of the firm facilitates the often atypical compliance decisions that individuals make when acting within a corporate setting. The book draws on social psychology to offer important insights into how the often-elusive goal of corporate behavioural change can be achieved, for the benefit of both the market and society as a whole. Joint runner-up of the 2021 SLS Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship.

This book is written in such a way that will appeal to graduate students as well as academics and practitioners – it is clear, concise and precise and well structured around key themes. At a critical juncture in corporate governance studies generally, and compliance specifically, this book brings some much-needed optimism to the field. I came away from the read with a much more positive outlook than prior. I advise you to do the same. -- Ciara Hackett, Queens University Belfast * Cambridge Law Journal *

ISBN: 9781509946662

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272 pages