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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Main Author: Hasnas, John (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer 2012
In: 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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