Corporate Moral Responsibility
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4080079 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amy J Sepinwall (California University of Pennsylvania, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 3-13 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1747-9991 • E-ISSN: 1747-9991 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/phc3.12293 |
| OpenAlex | W2284957741 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 65 |
This essay provides a critical overview of the debate about corporate moral responsibility (CMR). Parties to the debate address whether corporations are the kinds of entities that can be blamed when they cause unjustified harm. Proponents of CMR argue that corporations satisfy the conditions for moral agency and so they are fit for blame. Their opponents respond that corporations lack one or more of the capacities necessary for moral agency. I review the arguments on both sides and conclude ultimately that what divides the two is not so much competing conceptions of the corporation as it is disagreement about what moral agency requires. Homing in on the real site of contention will, it is hoped, allow future participants in the debate to focus their efforts more productively
Attribution · Blame · Business · Corporation · Epistemology · Harm · Law and economics · Moral agency · Moral disengagement · Moral responsibility · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Ethics in medical practice · Free Will and Agency · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · War, Ethics, and Justification
Shared and Institutional Agency
The Tyranny of Generosity
Not In Their Name
Non‐paradigmatic punishments
StopHateForProfit and the Ethics of Boycotting by Corporations
Philosophy’s other climate problem☆
On the Relation Between Collective Responsibility and Collective Duties
On the possibility of a normative account of corporate trust
Shared Agency
Moral Responsibility in Collective Contexts
Collective and Corporate Responsibility
Responsibility Incorporated
Can a Random Collection of Individuals be Morally Responsible?
Holding Them Responsible
Perspectives on Moral Responsibility
Participant Reactive Attitudes and Collective Responsibility
Collective Moral Responsibility and Collective Intention
The Rationality of Collective Guilt
Moral Responsibility in the Age of Bureaucracy
The Importance of What We Care About
The Responsibility of "Random Collections"
A Political Account of Corporate Moral Responsibility
Holding Nations Responsible
The Collective Moral Autonomy Thesis
Massively Shared Agency
Complicity
The Ontological and Moral Status of Organizations
Shared Intention
Group Agency
Formal organizations, economic freedom and moral agency
Organizations as non-persons
Individual and Collective Moral Responsibility for Systemic Military Atrocity
The Psychopath as Moral Agent
Morality and the Ideal of Rationality in Formal Organizations
National Responsibility
Business Ethics
The Nature and Ethics of Blame
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |