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Corporate Compliance and Conformity
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Corporate Compliance and Conformity

by Petter Gottschalk
March 2023
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
244 pages
8h 35m
English
Routledge
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8  Bottom-Up Corporate Control

DOI: 10.4324/9781003379249-11

Traditionally, control in organizations is concerned with top-down approaches, where executives attempt to direct their employees to align their work with organizational objectives. This chapter addresses the challenge of directing executives to align their work with laws, rules, and ethics. Various bottom-up approaches are explored based on the theory of convenience. The bottom-up approaches to executive compliance focus on organizational measures to make white-collar crime less convenient for potential offenders. Bottom-up control refers to the manner in which organizational members can use different types of control mechanisms – such as whistleblowing, transparency, resource access, ...

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ISBN: 9781000857085