El compliance en tiempos de responsabilidad penal de las personas jurídicas en Ecuador

Abstract

Private companies in Ecuador face new paradigms related to the exercise of “good corporate governance”, as well as the latent possibility of their criminal responsibility. This work aims to address the need for knowledge of Compliance as an instrument of business management, and its incorporation with a view to preventing the commission of crimes and to release or mitigate criminal liability to the company. Need that in the existence of the company, requires knowledge of the general elements that structure it and that will be addressed in this work. Based on the specialized literature review and foreign experience, the purpose of this research is the results of two questions posed in a questionnaire applied in a previous work, according to which, most of the companies surveyed although they did not know Compliance, consider it indispensable tool Finally, the conclusion of its necessary implementation was reached as an ideal mechanism to achieve the two purposes indicated above.