RT Article
T1 The impact of external pressure on companies’ responses to sanctions: an international comparative study
JF European journal on criminal policy and research
VO 30
IS 2
SP 1
OP 26
A1 Stępień, Beata 19XX-
A2 Early, Brian R. 1982-
A2 Grauvogel, Julia
A2 Preble, Keith A. 1975-
A2 Truskolaski, Szymon
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1898159998
AB What explains the strategies firms adopt in response to economic sanctions? Our study argues that different types of external pressure, such as public shaming, the nature of companies’ business relationships, and national-level legal-regulatory environments affects how firms respond to the sanctions imposed against Russia after its 2022 invasion of Ukraine. We develop a suite of hypotheses about how external pressure affects firms’ compliance behaviors and whether firms adopt reactive and/or proactive strategic responses. We test our hypotheses by analyzing results from a survey of 610 medium-sized companies operating in Germany, Poland, and the United States. Using structural equation modeling (SEM), we find that external pressure is associated with higher levels of compliance and overcompliance with sanctions but is also associated with undercompliant behavior. We also find that compliance with sanctions is associated with a high degree of proactive response, which suggests compliant firms may often seek out legal means of circumventing sanctions. We further observed variation in the effects of external pressure, compliance behavior, and strategic responses on US firms compared to those in European Union members Germany and Poland.
K1 Qualitativ vergleichende Analyse
K1 Wirtschaftssanktion
K1 Privatunternehmen
K1 Auswirkung
K1 Handlung
K1 Compliance
K1 Economic sanctions
K1 Firms
K1 Overcompliance
K1 Russia
K1 Sanctions busting
K1 Survey
K1 Undercompliance
K1 Erde
K1 Usa
K1 Polen
K1 Deutschland
DO 10.1007/s10610-024-09576-y