ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the nature of these self-regulatory practices that may be of a more manufactured or more organic nature. Analytically, these mechanisms emanate from the micro, meso and macro-levels, and originate within three main domains. The mechanisms involve both state and non-state regulatory actors, reflect varying levels of formality, can be specific or general and may be direct and/or indirect in their influence. The chapter argues that while mechanisms of a manufactured nature reflect contemporary regulation theory, understanding organic mechanisms offers new ways of thinking about regulation. Thus, the argument is not that regulatory strategies ought to be directed away from the manufactured responses of regulatory agencies as such governmental authorities create important formal frameworks and ought to retain a primary role. However, shifting focus to the broader regulatory landscape to understand informal and organic mechanisms informs analytical and theoretical understandings of behaviour change within corporations at risk of being involved in transnational bribery.
