When enterprise does management activity, protect rule such as law and various rules etc. and furthermore social norm. Case enterprise activity is said in order to distinguish with the fact that the ordinary citizen observes law, even "business compliance" you call.

Originally, because it is the judicial affairs-related terminology which is used the occasion where in the sixties the Antitrust Act violation and insider trading incident etc. of stock occur in the United States, "legal observance" there is many a thing which is translated, but English compliance "" it responds (to order and request) means the fact that the fact that "request is accepted," recently as for the norm which it should protect is interpreted that social common idea, ethics and morality are included not just law.

As for law and the rule which surround enterprise, there is a large number such as antitrust law, the Prevention of Unfair Competition Act, labor laws and consumer protective method in addition to civil law and commercial law, there is also order guidance and the like of the supervision. Furthermore, fairness of business operations and market competition, Freedom of Information Act and workplace environment to the consumer et. al. (such as overwork death in the security market , such as relationship between the government employee and the politician and the transaction, in many aspects high ethics (enterprise ethics) it is designed in such a way that it is required.

As for enterprise, the all official employee observes the systematic norm which it diverges such, if there is a offense, early discovering, making the management system which you can correct is required. In addition, also the third party check probably becomes necessary whether industry custom, it is not reciprocal with law and social common idea with the point of view whose company internal rule is wider.

Doing injury and counter social behavior, it loses the reliance of the consumer and the customer in the background which reaches the point where importance of compliance shouts, it has reached the point where the enterprise where business continuation becomes impossible occurs frequently. Compliance seems that when it is considered as risk management activity is many for enterprise. But, returning to the primary meaning of compliance, there is also an enterprise which it has tackled as strategic activity in order to raise the reliance from society.