Governments and regulators are saddled with the burden of introducing and enforcing compliance to the right laws and regulations in order to address specific needs of our dynamic contemporary society. Irrespective of the instruments or mechanisms they use, they are often concerned with over or under-regulation, as well as regulatory effectiveness. Despite advances in the use of Information Syst...

Industry uses GRC frameworks for compliance management and tracking. These are document-oriented systems that help human experts maintain traceability between various artefacts in the compliance life-cycle. Documents such as legal text of regulations, compliance process descriptions, audit reports, etc. can be linked using tagging mechanisms. Actual implementation of compliance to regulations h...

Organisations are more and more under pressure to comply with an increasing number of external and internal regulations for business governance and must ensure that their processes are running accordingly to requirements of regulations. Therefore business process and regulations compliance analysis, audit and management tasks take very important role in daily operational activities of each orga...

Non-compliance with fishing regulations by Iranian fishermen in three provinces of Khuzestan, Bushehr, and Hormozgan along the Persian Gulf was investigated. Using a questionnaire and a stratified random sample method, a total of 566 fishermen were interviewed. The legitimacy variables (outcome and process) that can explain the observed noncompliance with zoning regulations for the shrimp fishe...

This article examines the causes of urban earthquake vulnerability in Gujarat, based on the case study of Ahmedabad city which was affected in the 2001, Gujarat earthquake. This paper argues that the non-compliance of regulations which causes urban vulnerability cannot be corrected merely by additional regulations or increased enforcement. An enabling environment of compliance of regulations ca...

Compliance standards are necessary to ensure that enterprises adhere to important laws and regulations concerning their business. To overcome the diversity of laws and regulations, software companies have promised to support the enterprises by appropriate software solutions. Consequently, new compliance management systems have been brought to the market and existing business applications have b...

INTRODUCTION This article examines the association between the New York City regulations on beverages served in child care centers and beverage consumption among enrolled children. The regulations include requirements related to beverages served to children throughout the day. METHODS Beverage consumption data were collected on 636 children enrolled in 106 group child care centers in New York...

BACKGROUND The use of natural health products, such as vitamins, minerals, and herbs, by Canadians has been increasing with time. As a result of consumer concern about the quality of these products, the Canadian Department of Health created the Natural Health Products (NHP) Regulations. The new Canadian regulations raise questions about whether and how the NHP industry will be able to comply an...

INTRODUCTION Policy interventions designed to change the nutrition environment and increase physical activity in child care centers are becoming more common, but an understanding of the implementation of these interventions is yet to be developed. The objective of this study was to explore the extent and consistency of compliance with a policy intervention designed to promote nutrition and phys...

Recent years have seen a number of high-profile incidents of corporate accounting fraud, security violations, terrorist acts, and disruptions of major financial markets. This has led to a proliferation of new regulations that directly impact businesses. As a result, businesses, in particular publicly traded companies, face the daunting task of complying with an increasing number of intricate an...