Corporate moral responsibility

hilosophy Compass

Volume 11, Issue 1, 1 January 2016, Pages 3-13

  (Review)

Sepinwall, A.J. 

 

Department of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 3730 Walnut St, United States 

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Abstract

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 thearguments on both sides and conclude ultimately that what divides the two is not so much competing conceptions ofthe 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. © 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

ISSN: 17479991Source Type: Journal Original language: English

DOI: 10.1111/phc3.12293Document Type: Review

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing

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  Sepinwall, A.J.; Department of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 3730 Walnut St, United States; email:sepin@wharton.upenn.edu
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