Beyond Management Compliance:Organizational Conformity for Business Legitimacy

Petter Gottschalk
Additional contact information
Petter Gottschalk: BI Norwegian Business School, Norway

in World Scientific Books from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: This book argues that management compliance is not sufficient for business legitimacy. True legitimacy is a matter of a company's stakeholders' values and actions being aligned with those of broader society. Alignment with laws, rules, and regulations is only a matter of corporate compliance necessary to secure the legal licensing to operate, and is distinct from conformance with the norms, values, and ethics necessary to secure the social license to operate.

Keywords: Corporate Compliance; Corporate Conformance; Sport Corruption; Legal License; Social License; Convenience Theory; Corporate Investigation; White-collar Crime; Business; Management; Crime Convenience; Criminal Comformity; Fraud Investigation; Harassment; Business Legitimacy; Management Compliance; Whistleblowing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D23 D73 D91 G34 K14 K42 L22 M14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781800619500
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/q0573 (text/html)
Ebook Access is available upon purchase

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wsi:wsbook:q0573

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from

Access Statistics for this book

More books in World Scientific Books from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Tai Tone Lim ().