RT Article
T1 The Ethics of Advising on Regulatory Compliance: Autonomy or Interdependence?
JF Journal of business ethics
VO 28
IS 4
SP 339
OP 351
A1 Parker, Christine
LA English
PB Springer Science + Business Media B. V
YR 2000
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1785615017
AB Many companies are now implementing ethics and regulatory compliance programs. The growth of employment of both lawyers and specialist "compliance professionals" to advise on and facilitate implementation of these programs has expanded concomitantly. This paper examines the ethical role that should be played by these advisors. Traditional ways of conceptualising corporate lawyers' ethics are shown to be inadequate because they see the legal advisor as an autonomous adversarial advocate or an independent and aloof counsellor. Instead interviews with compliance practitioners are used to show that a superior conceptualisation of the compliance advisor's role is emerging. Compliance practitioners identify explicitly with business and, at the same time, identify with a broader ethical community of other compliance professionals, regulators and stakeholders in order to play a transformative role within the organisation. This conception recognises the interdependence between compliance advisor and corporate client.
K1 regulatory compliance
K1 Legal ethics
K1 ethics programs
K1 corporate lawyers
K1 compliance programs
K1 compliance professionals
DO 10.1023/A:1006396809305