caa a22 4500 60548385X CHVBK 20210128100433.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20151101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10551-014-2154-3 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10551-014-2154-3 Compliance or Comfort Zone? The Work of Embedded Ethics in Performing Regulation [Elektronische Daten] [Mar Pérezts, Sébastien Picard] The effective implementation of regulation in organizations is an ongoing concern for both research and practice, in order to avoid deviant behavior and its consequences. However, the way compliance with regulations is actually enacted or "performed” within organizations instead of merely executed, remains largely under-characterized. Evidence from an ethnographic study in the compliance unit of a French investment bank allows us to develop a detailed practice approach to how regulation is actually implemented in firms. We characterize the work accomplished by compliance analysts who are in fact, "curving” the script of regulation within what we conceptualize as a "comfort zone”. Beyond agency, ethics appears as a key element in linking the "letter of the law”, which serves as a referential anchor to guide action, with the complex nature of specific situations. We analyze the way individuals and compliance teams cope with, interpret, struggle and in fine, perform regulation within this comfort zone. A particular interest is thus given to the work of embedded ethics in this process, as an enabler to partly recouple compliance with the regulated activity. We find that blind execution is not only impossible, but also devoid of meaning both from regulatory, risk management, and business perspectives in organizations. We highlight and characterize a hermeneutic dimension to this work, essential to effectively perform regulation in complex environments, and we suggest some directions for further research. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2014 Compliance nationallicence Comfort zone nationallicence Ethics nationallicence Ethnography nationallicence Practice approach nationallicence Regulation nationallicence Pérezts Mar Management, Law and HR Department & OCE Research Center, EMLYON Business School, 23 Avenue Guy de Collongue, 69134, Ecully, France aut Picard Sébastien ESCP Europe, Secrétariat PH.D, 79 Avenue de la République, 75011, Paris, France aut Journal of Business Ethics Springer Netherlands 131/4(2015-11-01), 833-852 0167-4544 131:4<833 2015 131 10551 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2154-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-014-2154-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Pérezts Mar Management, Law and HR Department & OCE Research Center, EMLYON Business School, 23 Avenue Guy de Collongue, 69134, Ecully, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Picard Sébastien ESCP Europe, Secrétariat PH.D, 79 Avenue de la République, 75011, Paris, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Business Ethics Springer Netherlands 131/4(2015-11-01), 833-852 0167-4544 131:4<833 2015 131 10551