Legal Self-efficacy and Managers’ Use of Law
This study demonstrates that legal effectiveness may depend on how an individual perceives him/herself as a competent user of law. The hypotheses tested in this study are that the self-perceptions of people may be more important for legal effectiveness than are the objective factors such as law enfo...
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ftstockholmuniv:oai:DiVA.org:su-98053 2023-05-15T17:46:05+02:00 Legal Self-efficacy and Managers’ Use of Law Fredrik, Jörgensen 2009 application/pdf http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-98053 eng eng Företagsekonomiska institutionen ARSP. Archiv für Rechts- und Socialphilosophie, 0001-2343, 2009, 95:1, s. 79-101 orcid:0000-0002-7908-3958 http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-98053 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Legal efficacy legal transplants self-efficacy legal self-efficacy self-concept sanctions transition economy Russia rättssjälvtillit rättstransplantation självtillit sanktioner transitionsekonomi Economics and Business Ekonomi och näringsliv Article in journal info:eu-repo/semantics/article text 2009 ftstockholmuniv 2023-02-23T21:41:57Z This study demonstrates that legal effectiveness may depend on how an individual perceives him/herself as a competent user of law. The hypotheses tested in this study are that the self-perceptions of people may be more important for legal effectiveness than are the objective factors such as law enforcement agencies and the effectiveness of commercial legislation. The effectiveness concept was tested on survey data collected from 246 managers in northwest Russia. The result is that the subjective self-perceptions are a stronger determinant of the use of law than is the perceived institutional efficiency. Persons were to a lesser degree adopting law as an instrument conditioned on their calculation of the efficiency of courts and other institutions, but to a greater degree adopting law as a form of communication conditioned on their feeling of assuredness about their ability to communicate with legal terminology. Therefore there is a latent potential for improvement of legal effectiveness in the enhancement of how individuals perceive themselves as knowledgeable users of law. Article in Journal/Newspaper Northwest Russia Stockholm University: Publications (DiVA) |
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This study demonstrates that legal effectiveness may depend on how an individual perceives him/herself as a competent user of law. The hypotheses tested in this study are that the self-perceptions of people may be more important for legal effectiveness than are the objective factors such as law enforcement agencies and the effectiveness of commercial legislation. The effectiveness concept was tested on survey data collected from 246 managers in northwest Russia. The result is that the subjective self-perceptions are a stronger determinant of the use of law than is the perceived institutional efficiency. Persons were to a lesser degree adopting law as an instrument conditioned on their calculation of the efficiency of courts and other institutions, but to a greater degree adopting law as a form of communication conditioned on their feeling of assuredness about their ability to communicate with legal terminology. Therefore there is a latent potential for improvement of legal effectiveness in the enhancement of how individuals perceive themselves as knowledgeable users of law. |
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ARSP. Archiv für Rechts- und Socialphilosophie, 0001-2343, 2009, 95:1, s. 79-101 orcid:0000-0002-7908-3958 http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-98053 |
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