Conformance for Social License

Petter Gottschalk

Chapter 5 in Convenience Orientation in Corporate Crime:Corrective Recovery Responses for Compliance and Conformance, 2025, pp 93-111 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: Business owners and executives are concerned with corporate conformance in practice for maintaining the social license to operate. A distinction is often made between the legal license to operate and the social license to operate. The legal license refers to compliance with laws, regulations, and rules that apply within the jurisdiction, as discussed in the previous chapter. The social license refers to conformance with norms, values, and guidelines that apply within the society. Compliance and conformance to avoid corporate deviance is not just a matter of individual and organization wrongdoing that can harm other individuals, organizations, and societies. It is also a matter of global sustainability as described by the United Nations. The United Nation’s sustainability goal number sixteen concerns twelve targets for promoting peace, justice, and strong institutions (Windsor, 2022). As argued by Piazza et al. (2024: 249), “organizational theory has long emphasized the importance of conformity to prevailing norms, rules, and laws”.

Keywords: Corporate Compliance; Corporate Conformance; Convenience Theory; Corporate Scandal; Crisis Management; Destructive Leadership; Recovery Strategy; Recovery Triggers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G34 K42 L21 M14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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