Quantitative Analysis of Domestic and Foreign Corporate Compliance Research
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https://doi.org/10.54097/33h59e40Keywords:
Corporate compliance; unit crime; discourse construction.Abstract
The study finds that domestic legal circles' research on corporate compliance has been increasing in popularity since 2017, with "corporate compliance" and "criminal compliance" as the core, focusing on unit crimes, compliance programs, compliance management, incentive mechanisms, and special compliance. Moreover, criminal compliance discourse dominates, which is significantly influenced by the discourse power of criminal law groups and basically overlaps with the themes of corporate compliance legal research. Foreign research started in 2000, focusing on law and corporate governance. "Compliance program" is a high-frequency related keyword, with attention paid to corporate governance, social responsibility, human rights protection, etc. There is very little research on criminal compliance, and compliance programs focus more on comprehensive corporate governance. Obvious deviations exist between the two in the proportion of criminal compliance research, the focus of compliance programs, and the subject of special compliance. If domestic research only focuses on institutional issues such as criminal incentives for compliance without in-depth study of factual issues like corporate crimes, there will be risks in discourse construction, which should be treated with caution.
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