What is "transnational corporate bribery" and why do we need to regulate it? -- Conceptualising the "regulatory" framework : policing as regulation -- Legal frameworks for enforcement : from the international to the national -- Enforcing the law : structure, practice and discretion -- Theories of enforcement : prosecution policies -- Theories of self-regulation : manufactured and organic self-regulatory practices -- Understanding "regulatory" performance and determining "adequate" enforcement -- The "default position" : accommodating transnational corporate bribery
Summary
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 co
