Book contents
- Measuring Compliance
- Measuring Compliance
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- 1 Measuring Compliance: The Challenges in Assessing and Understanding the Interaction between Law and Organizational Misconduct
- Part 1 The Compliance Industry, the State, and Measurement Needs
- Part 2 Quantitative Approaches to Measuring Corporate Compliance
- Part 3 Qualitative Approaches to Measuring Corporate Compliance
- Part 4 Mixed Methods and Building on Existing Compliance Research
- 14 Mixing and Combining Research Strategies and Methods to Understand Compliance
- 15 Using Meta-Analysis/Systematic Review to Examine Corporate Compliance
- 16 Data Simulations as a Means of Improving Compliance Measurement
- Index
- References
14 - Mixing and Combining Research Strategies and Methods to Understand Compliance
from Part 4 - Mixed Methods and Building on Existing Compliance Research
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 February 2022
- Measuring Compliance
- Measuring Compliance
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- 1 Measuring Compliance: The Challenges in Assessing and Understanding the Interaction between Law and Organizational Misconduct
- Part 1 The Compliance Industry, the State, and Measurement Needs
- Part 2 Quantitative Approaches to Measuring Corporate Compliance
- Part 3 Qualitative Approaches to Measuring Corporate Compliance
- Part 4 Mixed Methods and Building on Existing Compliance Research
- 14 Mixing and Combining Research Strategies and Methods to Understand Compliance
- 15 Using Meta-Analysis/Systematic Review to Examine Corporate Compliance
- 16 Data Simulations as a Means of Improving Compliance Measurement
- Index
- References
Summary
Abstract: The main objective of this chapter is to present a concise overview of key debates and issues relating to the use of mixed methods and mixed strategies to understand compliance. We first engage with philosophical issues that underpin compliance research, the direction of different research traditions, and the implications of these for mixed strategy research. We argue that mixed methods should be attractive to researchers of compliance for a range of theoretical and methodological reasons and assess how these have been used so far in the discipline. In a bid to push forward the mixed methods movement in compliance research, we present further methods of inquiry and ways of thinking about compliance research: deliberative methods, comparative perspectives, time series analyses, and new technologies in the study of compliance. We then consider how mixed methods research designs can be fruitfully employed in the study of the complexities around compliance with COVID-19 regulations. We conclude by recognizing the practical, political, and resource challenges to undertaking mixed methods compliance research but argue that much can be gained in terms of the production of knowledge on the social complexity of compliance, by pursuing integrative, collaborative, and multidimensional research that encourages disciplinary and philosophical tensions to flourish, rather than constrain our understandings of compliance.
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- Measuring ComplianceAssessing Corporate Crime and Misconduct Prevention, pp. 241 - 263Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022