Business Development Representative Firm-Licensure Prerequisite — Ethical Activity

@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> . @prefix proeth: <http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#> . @prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> . @prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> . @prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> . <http://proethica.org/ontology/case/128#Business_Development_Representative_Firm-Licensure_Prerequisite_—_Ethical_Activity> a proeth:FirmLicensurePrerequisiteforBusinessDevelopmentRepresentativeActivity, owl:NamedIndividual ; rdfs:label "Business Development Representative Firm-Licensure Prerequisite — Ethical Activity" ; proeth:appliedto "Business Development Representative Business Development Marketing Engineer", "Engineering Firm Employing Licensed State Engineers" ; proeth:balancingwith "Business Card Non-Solicitation Character Principle", "Licensure Integrity and Public Protection Principle" ; proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ; proeth:concreteexpression "A business development engineer who is not personally licensed in a state may ethically tender business cards and engage in business development in that state, provided the employing firm has duly licensed engineers in that state who will perform the engineering work" ; proeth:confidence "0.91" ; proeth:discoveredincase "128" ; proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ; proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ; proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-28T22:02:21.234939+00:00" ; proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "128" ; proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-28T22:02:21.234939+00:00" ; proeth:importance "high" ; proeth:interpretation "The ethical legitimacy of the representative's activity derives not from personal licensure but from the firm's licensure coverage; the representative is acting as a conduit for a firm that can lawfully perform the work being developed" ; proeth:invokedby "NSPE Board of Ethical Review" ; proeth:principleclass "Firm Licensure Prerequisite for Business Development Representative Activity" ; proeth:sourcetext "it is within the bounds of ethical activity for a representative of an engineering firm – for example, an engineer who focuses on business development – to tender business cards at both business and social functions in such states, even if that person is not personally licensed in the state, provided that the firm which the person represents does have engineers who are duly licensed in the state" ; proeth:tensionresolution "The Board resolves the tension between commercial freedom and licensure protection by conditioning the representative's activity on firm-level licensure coverage, ensuring that business development does not outpace the firm's actual licensed capacity" ; proeth:textreferences "This type of situation amounts to deception and goes beyond the fact of tendering a business card.", "it is within the bounds of ethical activity for a representative of an engineering firm – for example, an engineer who focuses on business development – to tender business cards at both business and social functions in such states, even if that person is not personally licensed in the state, provided that the firm which the person represents does have engineers who are duly licensed in the state", "this Board feels it would not be ethical for this same (business development) engineer to engage in business development activities if that person's firm did not have engineers who were duly licensed in the state" ; proeth:wasattributedto "Case 128 Extraction" ; prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-28T22:14:48.659720"^^xsd:dateTime ; prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 128 Extraction" .