Regulating Corporate Bribery in International Business

Anti-corruption in the UK and Germany

Nicholas Lord (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

214 Seiten

2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-63770-2 (ISBN)

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This book is about the regulation of corporations that use bribery in international commerce to win or maintain overseas business contracts and interests. Recent large-scale cases involving multinational corporations demonstrate how large commercial ’non-criminal’ enterprises are being implicated in substantive overseas bribery scandals and illustrate the difficulties faced by responsible enforcement authorities in the UK and Germany. The book imports concepts from regulation theory to aid our understanding of the emerging enforcement, self-regulatory and hybrid responses to transnational corporate bribery. Lord implements a qualitative, comparative research strategy involving semi-structured interviews, participant observation and document analysis to provide empirical insights into this relatively invisible area of criminological interest. Despite significant cultural differences between the jurisdictions, this book argues that UK and German anti-corruption authorities face procedural, evidential, legal, financial and structural difficulties that are leading to convergence in prosecution policies. Although self-regulatory and hybrid mechanisms are aiding the response and gaining some level of regulation, the default position is one of accommodation by state agencies, even where the will to enforce the law is high. This book is essential reading for academics and students researching corporate and white-collar crimes and the concept of regulation more generally, as well as law enforcement agencies and international and intergovernmental organisations concerned with anti-corruption.

Nicholas Lord is a Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Law at the University of Manchester. He has research expertise in the area of white-collar and corporate crimes of a financial and economic nature such as fraud, corruption and bribery along with interests in regulation theory and corporate governance. He completed his PhD in criminology and an MSc in Social Science Research Methods in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University and his BA in Criminology and German at Lancaster University.

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 What is ‘Transnational Corporate Bribery’ and Why Do We Need to Regulate It?; Chapter 3 Conceptualising the ‘Regulatory’ Framework: Policing as Regulation; Chapter 4 Legal Frameworks for Enforcement: From the International to the National; Chapter 5 1 An earlier version of this chapter was published as follows: Lord, N. (2014) ‘Detecting and investigating transnational corporate bribery in centralised and decentralised enforcement systems: discretion and (de-)prioritisation in the UK and Germany’ Policing and Society, DOI: 10.1080/10439463.2014.895350; Chapter 6 Theories of Enforcement: Prosecution Policies; Chapter 7 Theories of Self-regulation: Manufactured and Organic Self-regulatory Practices; Chapter 8 Understanding ‘Regulatory’ Performance and Determining ‘Adequate’ Enforcement; Chapter 9 The ‘Default Position’: Accommodating Transnational Corporate Bribery;

Erscheinungsdatum	02.04.2017
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	335 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Sozialrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht ► Gesellschaftsrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-138-63770-X / 113863770X
ISBN-13	978-1-138-63770-2 / 9781138637702
Zustand	Neuware