Compliance checking is gaining importance as today’s organizations need to show that operational processes are executed in a controlled manner while satisfying predefined (legal) requirements or service level agreements. Deviations may be costly and expose an organization to severe risks. Compliance checking is of growing importance for the business process management and auditing communities. ...

In line with a wider expansion of global governance tools to prevent and punish corruption, the enforcement anti-foreign bribery laws is increasing. Yet few cases are tested in court; rather, confidential negotiations out-of-court settlements have become norm. Many argue that this favours authorities, since even firms good defence reluctant risk trial when settlement appears safer option, but t...

This paper analyses changes in the legal protection of shareholder and creditor rights in 24 transition economies from 1990 to 1998. It documents differences in the initial conditions and a tendency towards convergence of formal legal rules as the result of extensive legal reforms. Convergence seems to be primarily the result of foreign technical assistance programmes as well as of harmonisatio...

You are the chief medical officer of a 300-bed teaching hospital.1 At your bi-weekly meeting with the chief compliance officer, you are shown a patient’s physician bill. The patient complained that the physician never saw her on two of the dates billed. The bill was sent to the CCO from the CEO as a billing complaint with the message: “fix it.” Quality of care and compliance ref lect the organi...

BACKGROUND Guatemala, as a party to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), is required to regulate cigarette packaging and labeling and eliminate illicit tobacco trade. Current packaging and labeling characteristics (of legal and illegal cigarettes) and their compliance with the FCTC is unknown. METHODS We sought to analyze package and label characteristics of illegal and legal c...

This article reviews recent research related to impaired insight in schizophrenia and its consequences for cognitive, behavioral, legal, and treatment compliance issues affecting this population. It discusses efforts to find the neurobiological basis for lack of insight and the various structures or circuits of the brain that have been implicated. In the search for a more reliable and valid mea...

Despite of the importance of records management (RM) in helping law firms manage legal, financial and organizational risk, many firms currently lack effective RM policies and systems. The rise of e-mail and other electronic content has led to the emergence of separate content silos and duplicative RM processes, increasing cost and complexity. Cumbersome, out-of-date systems challenge compliance...