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  • 10.12.2021

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    Title of Dissertation: Reframing Compliance – investing in enabling conditions

    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Andreas Suchanek
    University: HHL – Handelshochschule Leipzig
    Scholarship: sdw – Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft
    Cohort: 8th Cohort, since 2021
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    For corporations, complying with the law is an essential prerequisite to do business: It signals trustworthiness to clients and can be a competitive edge, whereas non-compliance threatens severe sanctions. For the corporations’ workforce, complying is not equally rational but puts the entire company at risk: typically, an employee perceives compliance with the rules as an (unattractive) refrain. This often corresponds with a low probability of detection in the event of a compliance violation and hence a low risk of suffering drastic (personal) consequences.

    Considering existing legal efforts, I intend to provide employees with (rational) orientation, why to behave in compliance with the rules through complementary ethical means.

    In this conceptual work I use a transactional ethics with economic method i.e., facilitating game theory to examine (un-)ethical interactions with normative concepts from ethics.

    Reframing compliance from cost to an investment in future collaboration offers employees to understand, why compliance is the right thing to do. Employees need to recognize compliance as a worthwhile self-restraint. Compliance (self-restraint) becomes the rational alternative and an enabling condition if otherwise the basis for business (cooperation) erodes.


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    [item title="Research Interests"]

    • Corporate Compliance
    • Integrity
    • Behavioral economics
    • Normative business ethics

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    [item title="Education"]

    • 2017, Master of Laws, International Business and Company Law, SRH Hochschule Heidelberg, Germany
    • 2015, Bachelor of Laws, Business Law, Universität Kassel, Germany

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    [item title="Professional and Academic Career"]

    • 2018-2021, Compliance Officer, Allianz Global Investors GmbH, Frankfurt a.M., Germany
    • 2017-2018, Trainee Compliance Management, DZ BANK AG, Frankfurt a.M., Germany
    • 2015-2016, Student Employee, Allianz Global Investors GmbH, Frankfurt a.M., Germany
    • 2015, Intern Governance, Risk & Compliance, PricewaterhouseCoopers WPG AG, Frankfurt a.M., Germany
    • 2013-2015, Student Assistant, Universität Kassel, Kassel, Germany

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    [item title="Publications"]

    • Petrushevska, M. & Gebauer, S. (2022), Nudging Corporate Compliance und Integrität – Auf der Grundlage des ethischen Kompasses. comply 7(3), 14-16.

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    • Normal 0 21 false false false DE X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ComplianceNet 2023, Washington, D.C., USA, Paper: "Rules alone are not enough – Why corruption prevention needs integrity"

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    [item title="Conference Contributions: Posters"]

    • Poster from sdw-Promovierendenforum „Reframing Compliance – investing in enabling conditions”, summer 2022

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    [item title="Memberships"]

    • Bundesverband der Compliance Manager (BCM) e.V.

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