Justification Incorporated: a Discursive Approach to Corporate Responsibility

Contrasting two standard models of corporate responsibility—the so-called “collectivist” and “individualist” model—this essay proposes a third option, namely, a discursive conception of responsibility and examines whether and how this conception can be applied to the corporate level. It does so by t...

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Publicado en:Ethical theory and moral practice
Autores principales: Buddeberg, Eva 1975- (Autor) ; Hecker, Achim (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
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Publicado: Springer Science + Business Media B. V [2018]
En: Ethical theory and moral practice
Año: 2018, Volumen: 21, Número: 3, Páginas: 465-475
Clasificaciones IxTheo:NCC Ética social
NCE Ética económica
VA Filosofía
Otras palabras clave:B Corporate Responsibility
B Discourse ethics
B Corporate social responsibility CSR
B Corporate agency
B Right to justification
B Answerability
Acceso en línea: Volltext (Verlag)
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Sumario:Contrasting two standard models of corporate responsibility—the so-called “collectivist” and “individualist” model—this essay proposes a third option, namely, a discursive conception of responsibility and examines whether and how this conception can be applied to the corporate level. It does so by taking a careful look at one of the preconditions of individual discursive responsibility, i.e. discursive practical reason, and discussing how corporate agents can meet this precondition. Building on this new concept, the essay also offers a novel approach to justifying corporate responsibility by referring to an argument advanced by Rainer Forst stating that a fundamental human right to justification is the normative core of any kind of responsibility and combining it, in a second step, with an argument recently proposed by Philip Pettit and Christian List showing the impossibility of forming consistent group attitudes and beliefs as a function of the attitudes and beliefs of individual group members. Finally, this essay outlines certain preliminary conclusions about the incorporation of responsibility in a corporate context.
ISSN:1572-8447
Obras secundarias:Enthalten in: Ethical theory and moral practice
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s10677-018-9921-7