The Fallacy of Corporate Moral Agency

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Beschreibung

It is uncontroversial that corporations are legal agents that can be held legally responsible, but can corporations also be moral agents that are morally responsible? Part one of this book explicates the most prominent theories of corporate moral agency and provides a detailed debunking of why corporate moral agency is a fallacy. This implies that talk of corporate moral responsibilities, beyond the mere metaphorical, is essentially meaningless. Part two takes the fallacy of corporate moral agency as its premise and spells out its implications. It shows how prominent normative theories within Corporate Social Responsibility, such as Stakeholder Theory and Social Contract Theory, rest on an implicit assumption of corporate moral agency. In this metaphysical respect such theories are untenable. In order to provide a more robust metaphysical foundation for corporations the book explicates the development of the corporate legal form in the US and UK, which displays how the corporation has come to have its current legal attributes. This historical evolution shows that the corporation is a legal fiction created by the state in order to serve both public and private goals. The normative implication for corporate accountability is that citizens of democratic states ought to primarily make calls for legal enactments in order to hold the corporate legal instruments accountable to their preferences.

Zusammenfassung

The first book to focus exclusively on Corporate Moral Agency and its implications

Provides a broad context for the analysis of corporate social responsibility, covering the disciplines of philosophy, economics and law

Offers a contrarian perspective in a field that largely endorses corporate moral agency and corporate social responsibility

Provides reasoned arguments in favor of a legal perspective

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Part One: Corporate Moral Agency 1.1 Necessary Conditions For Moral Agency 1.2 Peter French & Corporate Moral Agency Conditions 1.3 The Structure Of Conglomerate Collectivities And Corporate Moral Agency 1.4 The Reference Of Corporate Proper Names And Responsibility Attributions 1.5 Corporate Moral Agency And Responsibility Attribution As Not Distinct From The Corporate Members 1.6 Conclusion: Legitimate And Illegitimate Corporate Moral Responsibility Attributions 2 Part Two: The Role Of The Corporation In Society 2.1 Descriptively: The Role Of The Corporation In Society 2.2 Prescriptively: The Role Of The Corporation In Society Conclusion Bibliography¿.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2015
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Philosophie
Jahrhundert:	Antike
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Buch
Reihe:	Issues in Business Ethics
Inhalt:	xiv 218 S. 7 s/w Illustr. 218 p. 7 illus.
ISBN-13:	9789401797559
ISBN-10:	9401797552
Sprache:	Englisch
Herstellernummer:	978-94-017-9755-9
Ausstattung / Beilage:	HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Rönnegard, David
Hersteller:	Springer Netherland Springer Netherlands Issues in Business Ethics
Maße:	241 x 160 x 19 mm
Von/Mit:	David Rönnegard
Erscheinungsdatum:	29.05.2015
Gewicht:	0,518 kg

Artikel-ID: 104936706