Academic Integrity Beyond Audit: A Multi-Regime Field Approach to Performance, Internalization and Agency

Abstract (Outdated version. Please use v2.0.0. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17782544):
This preprint develops a multi-regime field framework for understanding academic integrity beyond audit-based models. It shows how integrity is co-produced by bureaucratic, communal and algorithmic regimes that shape performance, internalization and agency. The analysis demonstrates that “tacit” dispositions are not inherent to individuals but dynamically governed by overlapping institutional regimes. This work provides empirical grounding for broader theoretical debates on tacit knowledge, organizational fields and the pre-formal structures that determine what becomes countable, auditable or visible within academic systems.