The regulation of business is increasingly characterized by “soft” governance regimes that blur the boundaries of public and private authority, as signaled by the rapid

proliferation of multistakeholder initiatives in global governance. This article explores how the spread of multistakeholderism creates opportunities for new forms [...]

How legitimate is Financial Action Task Force (FATF)? We address this question with cross-country evidence spanning performance-wise aspects—standards, evaluation, strategy.

FATF's legitimacy needs strengthening. Standards-wise, compliance to FATF's Recommendations generally contributes to both FATF's and external effectiveness proxies, [...]

States, firms, and other types of governors routinely rely on intermediaries to govern issues on their behalf. Such indirect governance drives regime complexity: governors

frequently enlist multiple intermediaries for governing an issue. I theorize that governors foster complexity to maximize utility from indirect governance. [...]

Taking its cue from the growing frequency of disruptive crises, new research argues that crisis-induced turbulence calls for robust governance based on adaptation and innovation.

While law plays a key role in the effort of governments to govern robustly, the robustness of law has received scant regard. [...]

This paper examines the strategic communication of the European Commission about developing a regulatory approach and financial instruments to foster the greening of the European

economy over a period of 14 years (2009–2023). We investigate in-depth the strategic communication of three European Commission Colleges led by Barroso, Juncker, [...]

The present study examines diversity in corporate offending. Corporations can be diverse or rather specialized in their pattern of rule violating behavior. Offending diversity

(or crime mix) constitutes an important dimension of the criminal career and different theories of offending lead to different predictions with regard to the extent [...]

Business organizations have increasingly adopted compliance strategies in response to heightened regulatory requirements. Prior research has examined the role of compliance

programs in curbing unethical behavior and enhancing corporate governance, but it has often overlooked their defensive function and proactive role in legal risk management. [...]

In a systematic narrative review of 33 longitudinal corporate crime studies, we identify and describe corporate criminal career dimensions: participation, frequency, crime

mix, and duration. Themes and patterns across data sources are assessed, including information collected that informs a corporate criminal career perspective and [...]

In most political systems, cities are not formally part of national policymaking. However, since they are often responsible for the implementation of national policies, they

are likely to seek influence on these policies. Existing literature deals mostly with institutionalized policy cooperation and collective municipal organizations. [...]

How do regulatory bodies ensure that including the beneficiaries of regulation in regulatory processes improves governance? In many regulatory arrangements, beneficiaries'

“fire alarm” monitoring and reporting of targets' violations via complaint mechanisms activate regulatory bodies' enforcement role. [...]