Ethical Codes and Cultural Context: Ensuring Legal Ethics in the Global Law Firm

Etherington, Laurence; Lee, Robert

doi:10.2979/gls.2007.14.1.95

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“…The implications of this dialectic are exemplified by the kind of work completed in GPSFs and the questions about professional ethics that arise. As Etherington and Lee (2007: 97–8) note, it is now not uncommon to find ‘an Australian lawyer working in the Brussels office of a New York law firm on a contract for a Japanese client with a German counterpart, which is governed by English common law, but in which disputes are to be referred to the International Chamber of Commerce’s International Court of Arbitration in Paris’. In such a scenario the employing firm’s definition of ethics may take precedence, leading to a situation in which the regulation of the production by producers potentially occurs outside the orbit of any one national professional regime.…”

Section: Professions Beyond the Nation-state: Transnational Professional Projects And Sociologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Professions in a globalizing world: Towards a transnational sociology of the professions

Faulconbridge

Muzio²

2011

International Sociology

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Globalization has significant implications for the professions, with the societies and the regulators around them changing and the realities of professional work in large organizations taking on increasingly transnational dimensions. However, while there is no lack of empirical studies of the globalization of individual professions and firms, the implications of processes of globalization, reregulation and governmental rescaling for neo-Weberian sociologies of the professions has not received the same attention. This article seeks to rectify this gap in knowledge by developing a transnational neo-Weberian sociology of the professions that takes account of the rescaling of the world that the professions inhabit and the important new research questions generated about the multi-scalar influences on the forms of regulation, power and legitimacy that underlie professional projects.

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Section: Professions Beyond the Nation-state: Transnational Professional Projects And Sociologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Professions in a globalizing world: Towards a transnational sociology of the professions

Faulconbridge

Muzio²

2011

International Sociology

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132

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“…There are cultural and legal variations between the European parent company norms and the United States business laws and cultures (Cebuc and Iosif 2008;Etherington and Lee 2007). These variations may be prone to cause ethical dilemmas (Etherington and Lee 2007) in the subsidiary CEOs leading the U.S. organizations under the guidance of the parent company direction.…”

Section: Delimitationsmentioning

confidence: 97%

U.S. CEOs of SBUs in Luxury Goods Organizations: A Mixed Methods Comparison of Ethical Decision-Making Profiles

Wisler¹

2016

J Bus Ethics

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This study involved using a mixed method research design to examine the moral philosophy difference between the ethical decision-making process of CEOs in U.S.-led and non-U.S.-led within the luxury goods industry. The study employed a MANOVA to compare the ethical profiles between the two leader types (US and non-US led) and a phenomenological qualitative process to locate themes that give indication as to the compatibility of the luxury strategy values and practices with the principles and concepts of responsible leadership and conscious capitalism. As the luxury goods industry is facing the first slowdown since 2000, pressure to achieve sales targets in the U.S. to make up for losses in other markets will place these CEOs under extreme pressure from their headquarters. These leaders must possess the ethical decisionmaking capability to balance legal and moral dilemmas unique to multinational luxury goods organizations while delivering business results in a challenging environment. Results of the study show no evidence of difference in the ethical decision-making profiles between the two groups of leaders. The themes and emergent findings resulting from the qualitative analysis indicate a profound incompatibility between the values informing decision-makers using the luxury strategy and those employed by leaders operating within the principles and parameters of responsible leadership and conscious capitalism. Recommendations for future research include replicating the study with a larger sample, within a different geographic region or comparing leaders using the luxury strategy to those using conscious capitalism. Chapter 1: The ProblemThe purpose of this study is to focus on the area of the ethical decision-making process of leaders within the luxury goods industry. This chapter describes the background and significance of the problem, the purpose of the study, the research questions formulated to address the problem and the hypotheses to address the research questions. In addition, this chapter presents the theoretical framework for the study and an overview of the research methodology the researcher employed during the study.

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“…National ethics rules could become impractical to apply when a lawyer or a team of lawyers operate in several jurisdictions. Despite the fact that national rules of legal ethics share the same core values (see below), details can vary considerably (Etherington and Lee, 2007;Hazard and Dondi, 2004;Mark, 2001;Moore, 2005;Terry, 2005). Even when the texts of the rules seem identical, different cultural attitudes and institutional environments lead to variant forms of application and interpretation.…”

Section: ''Seamless'' Cross-border Legal Practice and National Legal mentioning

confidence: 97%

“…202-240;Etherington and Lee, 2007;Sokol, 2007) or even entering an era of ''postprofessionalism'' (Kritzer, 1999, p. 720). The emphasis on changes to the profession also echoes a key theme in organizational literature according to which professional firms are being transformed according to a new ''archetype,'' that of a ''managed professional business'' (for example, Greenwood and Hinings, 1993;Brock, 2006).…”

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The Managerial Law Firm and the Globalization of Legal Ethics

Fasterling

2009

J Bus Ethics

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Ethical Codes and Cultural Context: Ensuring Legal Ethics in the Global Law Firm

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Cited by 10 publications

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Professions in a globalizing world: Towards a transnational sociology of the professions

Professions in a globalizing world: Towards a transnational sociology of the professions

U.S. CEOs of SBUs in Luxury Goods Organizations: A Mixed Methods Comparison of Ethical Decision-Making Profiles

The Managerial Law Firm and the Globalization of Legal Ethics

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