Simpson, Sally S.; Rorie, Melissa --- "Motivating Compliance: Economic and Material Motives for Compliance" [2011] ELECD 933; in Parker, Christine; Nielsen, Lehmann Vibeke (eds), "Explaining Compliance" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011)

Book Title: Explaining Compliance

Editor(s): Parker, Christine; Nielsen, Lehmann Vibeke

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781848448858

Section: Chapter 3

Section Title: Motivating Compliance: Economic and Material Motives for Compliance

Author(s): Simpson, Sally S.; Rorie, Melissa

Number of pages: 19

Extract:

3. Motivating compliance: economic
and material motives for compliance
Sally S. Simpson and Melissa Rorie

INTRODUCTION

The topic of regulatory compliance is by all accounts a complex one. In
their introduction to this volume, Parker and Nielsen identify several
general traditions in this regard, each with its own logic and empirical
base. Of particular relevance for this chapter are the `mapping and meas-
uring patterns of organizational responses to regulation and the factors
associated with them' and `testing theories that provide explanations for
the association between concepts relevant to organizational responses to
regulation and those responses themselves.' Parker and Nielsen also point
to some cross-cutting themes that focus on the ways in which organiza-
tions (or targets of regulation) respond to state and civil society controls
­ rules, restrictions and expectations for behavior that ostensibly will
produce socially and economically desirable outcomes.
In the discussion that follows we focus on the economic or material
motivations that influence businesses to comply (or not) with regulatory
dictates. Although the focus of the chapter is fairly narrow, our discussion
acknowledges the importance of micro and macro distinctions and the
linkages between organizational members and the company as a whole.
We also recognize that economic motivations represent only one part of a
broader set of motivational factors that affect compliance including social
and normative considerations (which are considered by Kagan et al. and
by Hutter in their contributions to this volume).
This chapter is based on a series of studies conducted in the US ...