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  • Best Paper Proceedings of the Sixty-fifth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management

Coerced Confessions: How Regulatory Deterrence Drives Self-Policing

By: Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel
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Keywords

Governance Compliance; Corporate Governance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms

Citation

Short, Jodi L., and Michael W. Toffel. "Coerced Confessions: How Regulatory Deterrence Drives Self-Policing." In Best Paper Proceedings of the Sixty-fifth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, edited by K. Mark Weaver. Academy of Management, 2006. (Winner of Charles H. Levine Award for Best Conference Paper presented by Academy of Management. Previously titled "Turning Themselves In: Why Some Firms Self-disclose Regulatory Violations".)
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Michael W. Toffel

Technology and Operations Management
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