RT Article
T1 International regime complexes and corporate crime: a research agenda based on the Volkswagen diesel fraud case
JF Crime, law and social change
VO 77
IS 2
SP 185
OP 206
A1 Braun, Caelesta 1979-
A2 Erp, Judith Gabriël van
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1824499329
AB Criminological literature has often pointed to the absence or weakness of existing international regulation as important explanatory factors of corporate crime in global markets. This paper addresses the presence of multiple parallel, nested and overlapping regulatory regimes, and explores how such international regime complexity creates pathways to corporate crime. We use the Volkswagen diesel fraud case as a plausibility probe to illustrate such pathways to corporate crime. Our tentative analysis suggests that Volkswagen’s fraud in the US cannot be seen as independent of the EU regulatory regime, which was more lenient and offered various opportunities for creative compliance. We conclude that a regime complexity perspective is a promising addition to existing explanations of corporate crime in international settings and suggest a research agenda for future in-depth analyses of the implications of parallel and conflicting regulatory regimes for corporate crime.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 201-206
K1 Umweltkriminalität
K1 Global Governance
K1 Betrug
K1 Kraftfahrzeugelektronik
K1 Manipulation
K1 corporate crime
K1 Environmental Crime
K1 International regime complexes
K1 Software fraud
K1 State-corporate crime
DO 10.1007/s10611-021-09980-z