Impact of Differences in Legal Risk Assessment on Compliance Norms in Multinational Corporations

• Autorzy: Tomasz Braun

Warianty tytułu

Wpływ różnic w ocenie ryzyk prawnych na normy compliance w korporacjach międzynarodowych

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

International corporations operating within the multijurisdictional environment are confronted with the daily challenge of staying in compliance with constantly varying legal and regulatory risks. To assure the conformity with the binding norms, they have to introduce complex internal legal and compliance management mechanisms. These mechanisms consist of the risk identification, assessment and mitigation measures. The core of the difficulty results from the cultural differences in the legal and regulatory systems on the diversified territories in which global corporations operate. The commonly used remedy applied by corporations that strive to assure the legal and regulatory uniformity across the geographies are internal compliance norms. However, the universally introduced compliance norms trigger both difficulties in applying them due to the cultural differences and, for the same reasons, problems caused by various interpretations of those norms. The legal workarounds addressed in this article show how corporations deal with the challenge of their multicultural legal and regulatory surroundings. (original abstract)

Międzynarodowe korporacje działające w środowisku wielojurysdykcyjnym stoją przed codziennym wyzwaniem zachowania zgodności ze stale zmieniającym się ryzykiem prawnym i regulacyjnym. Aby zapewnić zgodność z obowiązującymi normami muszą one wprowadzać złożone wewnętrzne mechanizmy kontroli zgodności z prawem. Mechanizmy te obejmują identyfikację, ocenę i środki ograniczające to ryzyko. Istota trudności wynika z różnic kulturowych w systemach prawnych i regulacyjnych na różnych terytoriach, na których działają globalne korporacje. Powszechnie stosowanym środkiem zaradczym wykorzystywanym przez korporacje, które dążą do zapewnienia jednolitości działania we wszystkich regionach geograficznych, są wewnętrzne normy zgodności. Jednakże uniwersalnie wprowadzane normy zgodności powodują zarówno trudności w ich stosowaniu ze względu na różnice kulturowe, jak i z tych samych powodów problemy spowodowane różnicami w ich interpretacji. Omówione w artykule rozwiązania prawne pokazują, jak korporacje radzą sobie z wyzwaniami związanymi z wielokulturowym otoczeniem prawnym i regulacyjnym. (abstrakt oryginalny)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

International corporation; Legal risk; Regulatory risk; Risk assessment; Legal and social business environment; Legal regulations; Law philosophy

PL

Korporacje międzynarodowe; Ryzyko prawne; Ryzyko regulacyjne; Ocena ryzyka; Prawne i społeczne otoczenie biznesu; Regulacje prawne; Filozofia prawa

• Czasopismo: Ius Novum
• Rocznik: 2019
• Tom: 13
• Numer: nr 2
• Strony: 225--249

Twórcy

autor

Tomasz Braun

• Lazarski University in Warsaw, Poland

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DOI

10.26399/iusnovum.v13.2.2019.24/t.braun