Reflections on Corporate Moral Responsibility and the Problem Solving Technique of Alexander the Great
The academic debate over the propriety of attributing moral responsibility to corporations is decades old and ongoing. The conventional approach to this debate is to identify the sufficient conditions for moral agency and then attempt to determine whether corporations possess them. This article reco...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
2012
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Journal of business ethics
Year: 2012, Volume: 107, Issue: 2, Pages: 183-195 |
| Further subjects: | B
Collective punishment
B Corporate moral responsibility B Collective Responsibility B Shared intention |
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| Summary: | The academic debate over the propriety of attributing moral responsibility to corporations is decades old and ongoing. The conventional approach to this debate is to identify the sufficient conditions for moral agency and then attempt to determine whether corporations possess them. This article recommends abandoning the conventional approach in favor of an examination of the practical consequences of corporate moral responsibility. The article’s thesis is that such an examination reveals that attributing moral responsibility to corporations is ethically acceptable only if it does not authorize the punishment of corporations as collective entities, and further, that this renders the debate over corporate moral responsibility virtually pointless. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-0697 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s10551-011-1032-5 |