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There Is No Quick Fix: Compliance Officers' Views on Organizational Behavioral Change.

Malouke Esra Kuiper1,2

  • 1Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Burgemeester Oudlaan 50, 3062 PA Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

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Compliance officers integrate multiple strategies to prevent organizational misconduct, aligning conceptually but not substantively with research. Their practical insights offer a foundation for understanding misconduct mitigation.

Keywords:
Behavioral changeCompliance officersExperiential knowledgeLeadershipRole modelingSanctions

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Area of Science:

  • Organizational Behavior
  • Business Ethics
  • Criminology

Background:

  • Organizational misconduct can cause significant societal damage.
  • Compliance officers are key to mitigating misconduct.
  • Extensive research exists on misconduct prevention, but compliance officers' experiential knowledge is understudied.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To analyze compliance officers' experiential knowledge.
  • To assess the alignment between this knowledge and empirical research findings.
  • To explore compliance officers' understanding of misconduct mitigation strategies.

Main Methods:

  • Semi-structured interviews with compliance officers.
  • Conceptual and substantive analysis of interview data.
  • Comparison of experiential knowledge with existing empirical research.

Main Results:

  • No "quick fix" for compliance; officers identified a combination of concepts.
  • Broad conceptual alignment between officers' views and research.
  • Superficial substantive alignment; officers minimally elaborated on behavioral impact.

Conclusions:

  • Compliance officers' practical insights are valuable for understanding misconduct mitigation.
  • A gap exists between conceptual understanding and substantive application of compliance strategies.
  • Further research should bridge experiential knowledge with behavioral science findings.