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153 gap statements mined from Regulation and Compliance Studies papers in our 7.9M-paper local library, which holds 2,354 papers on the topic — drawn mostly from each paper's own stated research gap, future-work, challenge and limitation notes, and its abstract. The ones listed below are a selection still marked open; each names the study that raised it, with a DOI link where the paper has one.

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  • The operationalization of generalized trust in particular—a multifaceted construct whose definition remains contested [16]—through a single survey item is a significant limitation of the study; Section 3.

    The Social Software of Corporate Governance: A Systems Analysis of Generalized Trust and Cultural Ecosystems · 2026 · DOI

  • The lack of a framework for the respect of human rights and environmental rights by major European companies. The difficulties faced by multinational companies in identifying and mitigating risks related to human rights and environmental impacts within their global value chains.

    The Protection of Human Dignity Through the European Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence · 2026 · DOI

  • The study highlights the need for clearer evaluative benchmarks, more explicit supervisory scrutiny, and a stronger enforcement architecture to enhance transparency, investor confidence, and the credibility of explanation-based governance.

    The Non-Compliance Provisions of Corporate Governance Codes: A Critical Analysis of the Laws of Mauritius and The United Kingdom · 2026 · DOI

  • The PFAS experience exposes limitations in both systems when addressing widespread contamination from substances whose environmental persistence and health effects were not understood until decades after deployment, demonstrating the need for adaptable frameworks that balance comprehensive cleanup with fair treatment of historical actors.

    Who pays for PFAS contamination? A comparative analysis of environmental liability in the US and Sweden · 2026 · DOI

  • The study highlights the need for more detailed technical guidelines regarding the mechanisms for proving corporate guilt and determining criminal liability.

    A Legal Analysis of Police Investigation Procedures for Corporate Crimes in the Cirebon Region · 2026 · DOI

  • The lack of governance frameworks that operate at the infrastructure layer. The failure of reforms that target only the application layer. The need for a framework that addresses the structural cause of governance failures.

    The Missing Layer in Modern Governance: How AML, Water, and AI Oversight Fail at the Infrastructure Level · 2026 · DOI

  • The lack of effective labor rights protection in current practices.

    The Weight of"S": Legal Positioning and Institutional Response of Labor Rights Protection in Chinese Corporate ESG Evaluation · 2026 · DOI

  • Prior research has not fully explained the cross-country variance in corporate governance. The paper identifies a gap in understanding the relationship between trust and shareholder-oriented corporate governance.

    The Social Software of Corporate Governance: A Systems Analysis of Generalized Trust and Cultural Ecosystems · 2026 · DOI

  • The study identifies a gap in the current governance of carbon credit markets, where eligibility designations may come to be interpreted as signals of credit integrity. The study highlights the need for effective governance mechanisms to address trust inflation.

    Eligibility interpreted as assurance and trust inflation in carbon credit markets · 2026 · DOI

  • In this context, the lack of evidence-based substantiation poses a fundamental question on the position of the Better Regulation Guidelines. A more problematic consequence may however be the fact that Omnibus I, relying on the argument of urgency and as noted above, provides very limited evidence-based policymaking.

    Better Regulation in the Context of Omnibus I; How a Departure from Evidence-Based Policymaking May Affect the Legitimacy of Omnibus I · 2026 · DOI

  • The paper notes that the Act's provisions may be undermined by these pathologies. The paper argues that deeper reforms are needed to address these challenges.

    CORPORATE GOVERNANCE OR CORPORATE THEATER? A Critical Appraisal of Board Independence and Minority Shareholder Protections under the Companies Act 2013 · 2026 · DOI

  • Future research may focus on examining the impact of the Companies Act 2013 on corporate governance in India. Future research may explore the effectiveness of different approaches to governance in India. Future research may investigate the role of institutional investors in promoting good governance practices in India.

    CORPORATE GOVERNANCE OR CORPORATE THEATER? A Critical Appraisal of Board Independence and Minority Shareholder Protections under the Companies Act 2013 · 2026 · DOI

  • The need for a mechanism to empower individuals to report violations of federal securities laws. The lack of protections against retaliation for individuals who report illegal activity.

    Understanding the SEC Whistleblower Program: How Citizens Police the Markets · 2026 · DOI

  • A blind human audit of the load-bearing outcome contrast preserves this third finding under corrected labels and reveals that text-similarity methods are insufficient for distinguishing editorial from substantive regulatory change, a measurement-validity lesson we treat as a supporting methodological contribution.

    Who Gets Heeded? An Obligation-Level Audit of Responsiveness in EPA Rulemaking · 2026

  • Limited comparative attention has been devoted to determining whether criminal responsibility survives corporate transformation. The existing scholarship has not adequately addressed the issue of continuity of criminal liability in the context of corporate mergers.

    Criminal Liability Following Corporate Mergers: A Comparative Analysis of Arab Legal Systems, French Law, and Common Law · 2026 · DOI

  • Its bounded contribution is to examine whether the evidentiary warrant for a previously justified governance-capability existence claim continues under claim-relevant change, while preserving alternative explanations, warrant-preserving continuity, and the possibility that available evidence is insufficient to determine the answer.

    When Does a Governance-Capability Claim Remain Warranted Under Changed Conditions ? · 2026 · DOI

  • Previous research has examined the impact of financial incentives on public sector performance, but there is limited evidence on how non-financial incentives influence civil servants’ behavior—particularly in encouraging compliance with secondary tasks such as responding to freedom-of-information (FOI) requests.

    Increasing responsiveness of civil servants. A field experiment on freedom of information compliance · 2026 · DOI

  • These findings indicate that while FMV privatization may enhance utility management through political decoupling, its presumed political benefits warrant further investigation.

    Does Political Decoupling Through Fair Market Privatization Improve Managerial and Political Outcomes? Insights From Water Utility Sales · 2026 · DOI

  • The structure and strength of interfirm linkages are not well understood. There is a need for a flexible framework to quantify facility-level emissions spillovers.

    Network Effects in Corporate Emissions: Evidence from a Data‐Dependent Spatial Panel Model · 2026 · DOI

  • The research highlights the lack of a mandatory digital product-traceability system in Peru. The study notes the limitations of declarative provisions in generating consistent behavioral change.

    Adoption of the Sustainable Model: European Union Circular Economy and the Implementation of Environmental Regulations in Peru · 2026 · DOI

  • Drawing on 35 semi-structured interviews with participants across the fair lending ecosystem, we find that while financial institutions have a floor of fairness practices aimed at preventing discrimination in lending largely absent in other domains, the specifics of how firms test for discrimination and search for less discriminatory algorithms varies widely.

    The Fair Lending Model: How the Longest-Running Algorithmic Fairness Programs Work in Practice · 2026

  • The identification of new domains where the Re-Commons principle can be applied.

    The Missing Layer in Modern Governance: How AML, Water, and AI Oversight Fail at the Infrastructure Level · 2026 · DOI

  • This paper treats the CEPI, which was progressively implemented from 2016, as a quasi-natural experiment. Using daily city-level panel data from 333 Chinese cities over the period from 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2022, we employ a regression discontinuity design in time to evaluate the governance effects of the CEPI on urban air quality.

    Policy Effect Evaluation of the Centralization of Environmental Supervision Authority: Evidence from China’s Central Environmental Protection Inspection · 2026 · DOI

  • Testing the validity of the two-tier governance model across differentiated industry scenarios. Customized governance designs for specific industries.

    The Weight of"S": Legal Positioning and Institutional Response of Labor Rights Protection in Chinese Corporate ESG Evaluation · 2026 · DOI

  • Further research on the implementation of circular economy principles is needed, - Studies on the effectiveness of regulatory adaptation in different contexts are required, - Research on the impact of digital product passports on circular decision-making…

    Adoption of the Sustainable Model: European Union Circular Economy and the Implementation of Environmental Regulations in Peru · 2026 · DOI

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Open questions raised by papers listed on this page include: (1) The lack of a framework for the respect of human rights and environmental rights by major European companies (“The Protection of Human Dignity Through the European Directive on Corporate…”, 2026); (2) The lack of governance frameworks that operate at the infrastructure layer (“The Missing Layer in Modern Governance: How AML, Water, and AI Oversight Fail…”, 2026); (3) The lack of effective labor rights protection in current practices (“The Weight of"S": Legal Positioning and Institutional Response of Labor Rights…”, 2026); (4) The lack of evidence-based substantiation poses a fundamental question on the position of the Better Regulation Guidelines (“Better Regulation in the Context of Omnibus I; How a Departure from…”, 2026); (5) The paper argues that deeper reforms are needed to address these challenges (“CORPORATE GOVERNANCE OR CORPORATE THEATER? A Critical Appraisal of Board…”, 2026). 153 gap statements have been mined from Regulation and Compliance Studies papers in our 7.9M-paper local library, which holds 2,354 papers on the topic; the gaps come from whichever of those papers state one. They are mostly the research gaps the authors state and the papers' abstracts, plus future-work, limitations and challenges passages. The ones listed below are a selection still marked open; each names the study that raised it, with a DOI link where the paper has one, so you can read the original claim in context.

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