Regulatory compliance is key in the fight against climate change and other environmental challenges. But regulatory agencies, especially in developing countries, are often hampered by their capacity to monitor and enforce standards and regulations against recalcitrant firms. There is now a big...

We examine the use and usefulness of systematic compliance management in research institutes using a survey of leaders of German research institutes and expert interviews. While only a quarter of the surveyed leaders report that they have an explicit compliance management system, they report to...

Power, rule, and legitimacy have always been core concerns of political science. In the 1970s, when governability appeared to be problematic, legitimacy was discussed both in the context of policy research and by critics of the capitalist state. More recently interest turned to governance beyond...

Im deutschen Recht ist weiterhin nicht vollständig geklärt, ob und in welchem Umfang Unternehmen verpflichtet sind, eine Compliance Organisation einzurichten. Eine solche zeichnet sich dadurch aus, dass einer organisatorisch verselbständigten Einheit die zukunftsorientierte Sorge für das...