Why (Some) Corporations Have Positive Duties to (Some of) the Global Poor
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21465147 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tadhg Ó Laoghaire (0000-0002-4149-8592, University of Gothenburg, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 184 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 741-755 |
| Publication date | 2023-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Business Ethics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0167-4544 • E-ISSN: 1573-0697 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s10551-022-05148-4 |
| OpenAlex | W4281764107 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 66 |
Many corporations are large, powerful, and wealthy. There are massive shortfalls of global justice, with hundreds of millions of people in the world living below the threshold of extreme poverty, and billions more living not far above that threshold. Where injustice and needs shortfalls must be remediated, we often look towards agents’ capabilities to determine who ought to bear the costs of rectifying the situation. The combination of these three claims grounds what I call a ‘linkage-based’ account of why corporations have demanding positive duties to the global poor. In this paper, I put forward a distinctive linkage-based account of corporations’ positive duties centred on the idea of dependence and the importance of meeting agents’ core needs. In addition to outlining and defending this account, I will show that we can utilise its basic conceptual components to make headway on questions that have received insufficient attention in the business ethics literature; specifically, we can say something substantive about the weighting of needy agents’ competing claims to assistance, and about the limits to the demands that can be lodged against corporations on the basis of others' unmet needs. Having integrated considerations of duties' grounding, their comparative weight, and the limits of their demandingness into a single account of corporate positive duty, I conclude by discussing a challenge to attributing to corporations duties owed to the worst-off amongst the global poor
Business · Business ethics · Duty · Economic growth · Economic Justice · Economics · Global justice · Injustice · Law and economics · Political science · Poverty · Public relations · Sociology · Ethics in Business and Education · Free Will and Agency · Law · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
Living High and Letting Die
Meeting Needs
The Core of Care Ethics
Can a Random Collection of Individuals be Morally Responsible?
Sweatshops, Structural Injustice, and the Wrong of Exploitation
Grounding Positive Duties in Commercial Life
National Responsibility and Global Justice
The Robust Demands of the Good
Boundaries and Allegiances
Responding to Global Poverty
The demandingness of morality
A Theory of Justice
Joint Duties and Global Moral Obligations
Philosophy and Public Affairs
Corporate Responsibility in the Collective Age
Iris Marion Young’s “Social Connection Model” of Responsibility
Moral Demands in Nonideal Theory
Joint Moral Duties
The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits
Multinational Corporations and Global Justice
Firms as Political Entities
Distant Strangers
Sweatshops, Exploitation, and the Case for a Fair Wage
Responsibility and Global Labor Justice
What to Do with Corporate Wealth
Collective Obligations
The Rejection of Consequentialism
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |