Remembering to forget: the historic irresponsibility of U.S. Big Tobacco

Society increasingly demands corporations to be accountable for their past misbehaviours. Some corporations engage in forgetting work with the aim of avoiding responsibility for their wrongdoings. We argue that whenever social actors have their past actions called into question and engage in forgett...

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Authors: Coraiola, Diego M. (Author) ; Derry, Robbin (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer 2020
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2020, Volume: 166, Issue: 2, Pages: 233-252
Further subjects:B Aufsatz in Zeitschrift
B Organizational mnemonics
B Tobacco Industry
B Historic CSR
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