David Lehman, along with Bruce Cooil and Rangaraj Ramanujam, explained the findings of their Journal of Management paper in a Harvard Business Review article.

David Lehman, along with Professors Bruce Cooil and Rangaraj Ramanujam of Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management, explained the findings of their Journal of Management paper, “The Effects of Rule Complexity on Organizational Noncompliance and Remediation: Evidence from Restaurant Health Inspections,” in an Oct. 7, 2019, Harvard Business Review article titled “Why Some Rules Are More Likely to Be Broken.”  While many studies have aimed to determine which organizations are more susceptible to a lax attitude that lends itself to rule breaking, Lehman and his colleagues focused on the rules themselves, discovering that the design of rules can actually be the root cause for noncompliance in organizations.