As part of a recent trend toward more cooperative relations between regulators and industry, novel government programs are encouraging firms to monitor their own regulatory compliance and voluntarily report their own violations. In this study, we examine how regulatory enforcement activities...

Apart from a few comparative surveys focusing on the largest companies, there are no content analyses of the codes of conduct of German companies. Due to country-specific differences in the legal, economic, and cultural environment, results of content analyses can hardly be transferred from one...

As part of a recent trend toward more cooperative relations between regulators and industry, novel government programs are encouraging firms to monitor their own regulatory compliance and voluntarily report their own violations. In this study, we examine how regulatory enforcement activities...