From empowering to motivating Enhancing policy enforcement through process design and incentive implementation

Policy enforcement is crucial in our daily life, from protecting rights to promoting collaborations. In practice, designed processes and institutional incentives are two powerful tools in enforcing policies. Processes empower compliance and prevent non-compliance by technology, while incentives motivate adherence through rewards and punishments.
Given the distinct mechanisms of these two methods, this dissertation addresses policy enforcement from the perspectives of empowerment and motivation in Part I and Part II, respectively.
Part I focuses on designing appropriate processes, including pre-audit, operational execution, and post-audit, to empower and terminate compliant and non-compliant behaviors. It further realizes these processes by blockchain and smart contract technologies.
Part II discusses comprehensive criteria for institutional incentive design and potential corruption in incentive implementation. It predicts incentive effectiveness through mathematical modeling and simulation experiments.
It is worth mentioning that, although the enforced policies in this dissertation are primarily for data governance, the obtained results can be applied to various scenarios.