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Individuals are generally considered morally responsible for their actions. Who or what is responsible when those individuals become part of business organizations? Can we correctly ascribe moral responsibility to the organization itself? If so, what are the grounds for this claim and to what extent do the individuals also remain morally responsible? If not, does moral responsibility fall entirely to specific individuals within the organization and can they be readily identified?
A perennial question in business ethics has concerned the extent to which business organizations can be correctly said to have moral responsibilities and obligations. In philosophical terms, this is a question of "corporate moral agency." Whether firms can be said to be moral agents and have the capacity for moral responsibility has significant practical consequences. In most legal systems in the world, business firms are recognized as "persons" with the ability to own property, to maintain and defend lawsuits, and to self-organize governance structures. However to recognize that these "business persons" can also act morally or immorally as organizations would justify the imposition of other legal constraints and normative expectations on organizations. In the criminal law, for example, the idea that an organized firm may itself have criminal culpability is accepted in many countries (such as the United States) but rejected in others (such as Germany).
This book presents contributions by leading business scholars in business ethics, philosophy, and related disciplines to extend our understanding of the "moral responsibility" of firms.
Contents
Thomas Donaldson: Preface
Introduction
N. Craig Smith: The Moral Responsibility of Firms: Renewed Interest in a Perennial Question of Business Ethics
Part One
1: Philip Pettit: The Conversable, Responsible Corporation
2: Michael E. Bratman: The Intentions of a Group
3: Peter A. French: The Diachronic Moral Responsibility of Firm
4: Waheed Hussain and Joakim Sandberg: Normative Functionalism about Corporate Moral Agency
Part Two
5: John Hasnas: The Phantom Menace of the Responsibility Deficit
6: Ian Maitland: How Corporate Responsibility Undermines True Responsibility
7: David Rönnegard and Manuel Velasquez: On (Not) Attributing Moral Responsibility to Organizations
8: Amy J. Sepinwall: Blame, Emotion, and the Corporation
Part Three
9: Kendy Hess: The Unrecognized Consensus about Firm Moral Responsibility
10: Nien-hê Hsieh: Corporate Moral Agency, Positive Duties, and Purpose
Conclusion
Eric W. Orts: The Moral Responsibility of Firms: Past, Present, and Future
