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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Fallacy of Corporate Moral Agency
  name:
    name part: Rönnegard, David.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 218 p. 7 illus. online resource.
  abstract: 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.
  note: by David Rönnegard.
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Ethics
  subject:
    topic: Law
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Law
  subject:
    topic: Economic theory
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Ethics
  subject:
    topic: Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods
  subject:
    topic: Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History
  classification: BJ1-1725
  classification: 170
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Issues in Business Ethics, 44
  identifier: 9789401797566
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9756-6
  record info:
    record creation date: 150512
    record change date: 20151204174236.0
    record identifier: 978-94-017-9756-6