Antonino Vaccaro is an Associate Professor of the Department of Business Ethics and of IESE's Negotiation Unit. He is also the Academic Director of the Center for Business in Society and of the Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship platform. In addition, he serves as the Academic Director in various IESE's custom programs for multinational companies and educational institutions.
Cosmetic or Substantial Compliance?
By Antonino Vaccaro
During the last ten years, I had the possibility to analyze, for research or consulting reasons, hundreds of compliance models of companies operating in Europe, North America, Africa and Latina America.
Let me share with you a very simple statistics: over 95% of them adopted a compliance approach that I define in my courses as “cosmetic”.