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Chapter 5
Legal Environment
Chapter Outline
Multiplicity of Legal Environments Legal Systems Jurisdiction and Extraterritoriality Legal Form of Organization Branch vs. Subsidiary Litigation vs. Arbitration
Chapter Outline
Bribery
- Legal Dimension
- Ethical Dimension Intellectual Property
- Categories of Intellectual Property
- Legal Rights and Requirements
Legal Systems
Common law system– Relying on precedents and conventions– E.g., USA, UK, Canada, India
Statute law system– Code or civil law system– Main rules of law embodied in legislative codes– Japan and most continental European countries
Jurisdiction
territorial range of authority a court's legal power to hear a case
Extraterritoriality
a country's or court's application of national laws beyond its border– E.g., USA and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act– E.g., Belgium’s universal jurisdiction
How to Settle Commercial Disputes
Negotiation Arbitration Litigation
Bribery: Legal Dimension
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of
Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)
Bribery is "the use of interstate commerce to offer, pay, promise to pay, or authorize giving anything of value to influence an act or decision by a foreign government, politician, or political party to assist in obtaining, retaining, or directing business to any person."
Types of Payment- Permissible: expediting payments to low-level officials
who exercise only "ministerial" or "clerical" functions - Illegal: payments to an official exercising discretionary
authority
Bribery: Ethical Dimension
Morality as a function of culture Corporate strategies
– Codes of conduct– Sensitization of ethics in managers through training
and education– Ethics audit
Transparency International
Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) Bribe Payers Index (BPI)
Intellectual Property
"creations of the mind: inventions, literary and artistic works, and symbols, names, images, and designs used in commerce"
Trademark Copyright Patent
– Functional patent– Design patent
Trade Secret
Intellectual Property
Trademark - symbol, word, or thing used to identify a product made or
marketed by a particular firm Copyright- protection given to an author or artist for literary, musical,
dramatic, and artistic works Patent - invention of a scientific or technical nature Trade secret - know-how that is kept secret within a particular business- e.g., manufacturing methods, formulas, plans