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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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Introduction

DOI: 10.4324/9781003379249-1

Compliance refers to meeting legal and other formal obligations, while conformity refers to meeting and potentially exceeding societal and other informal norms and obligations (Durand et al., 2019: 300):

[W]e posit that conformity characterizes voluntary actions that constitute a response to social and normative expectations not (yet) codified in standards and law, while compliance relates to formal mandatory regulations that typically enact only minimal conditions of institutional acceptability.

Compliance refers to accepting by obeying the formal laws, rules, regulations, and guidelines in force within the jurisdiction. By meeting legal obligations, compliant organizations obtain a legal license ...

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ISBN: 9781000857085