Increasingly, there is awareness that corruption and human rights are intimately connected. However, the debates and reform proposals on improving corporations’ social performance in these two areas are often treated as separate concerns. This article argues that companies must see combating...

International treaties and domestic legislation regulating corrupt practices by public officials have appeared in a myriad of jurisdictions and legislations. However the reach and teeth of some legislation calls into question basic principles of international law and the limits that enforcing...

This paper documents novel evidence on the influence of political incentives in the regulatory enforcement of foreign bribery. Using case-level data from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and U.S. Department of Justice, we find strategic discretion in the timing of enforcement in the...