Moralizing the Corporation

2010-01-01 Business & Economics

Author : Boris Holzer
Release : 2010-01-01
Genre : Business & Economics
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Download or read book Moralizing the Corporation written by Boris Holzer. This book was released on 2010-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each chapter in this book by itself is a worthy contribution to the existing research on the TNC in a globalised world. In-spire, Journal of Law, Politics and Societies The argument of this book is so powerful and convincing because it focuses on global subpolitics: the corporate (ir)responsibility, the power of its critics, and the consuming citizen. This shift of perspectives and its sophistication makes Moralizing the Corporation a must-read for anyone interested in the dynamics of globalization. Ulrich Beck, University of Munich, Germany Moralizing the Corporation offers a multi-disciplinary analysis of the conflicts between transnational corporations and transnational advocacy groups. The book is theoretically sophisticated and full of interesting and nuanced empirical findings that generate new knowledge about the relationship between politics and markets. It views transnational corporations as quasi-public institutions and explains their vulnerability to the non-state authority of political consumers and protest groups. Holzer develops theory on transnational subpolitics and corporate reflexivity and should be read by scholars and activists alike. Michele Micheletti, University of Stockholm, Sweden This insightful book examines how transnational corporations respond to the challenges of anti-corporate activism and political consumerism. In prominent cases involving major corporations such as Nestlé, Nike and Royal Dutch/Shell, transnational activists have successfully mobilized public opinion and consumers against alleged corporate misdemeanours. Campaigns and boycott calls can harm a corporation s image but, as this book points out, public scrutiny also gives corporations the opportunity to present themselves as responsible and accountable corporate citizens who subscribe to the very norms and values propagated by the activists. Academics, scholars and postgraduate students in international business management, organization studies, social movement studies and political sociology will find this book invaluable.

The Fallacy of Corporate Moral Agency

2015-05-12 Philosophy

Author : David Rönnegard
Release : 2015-05-12
Genre : Philosophy
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Download or read book The Fallacy of Corporate Moral Agency written by David Rönnegard. This book was released on 2015-05-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Moralizing the Corporation

2010-01-01 Business & Economics

Author : Boris Holzer
Release : 2010-01-01
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 592/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Moralizing the Corporation written by Boris Holzer. This book was released on 2010-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Moralizing the Corporation offers a multi-disciplinary analysis of the conflicts between transnational corporations and transnational advocacy groups. The book is theoretically sophisticated and full of interesting and nuanced empirical findings that generate new knowledge about the relationship between politics and markets. It views transnational corporations as quasi-public institutions and explains their vulnerability to the "non-state authority" of political consumers and protest groups. Holzer develops theory on transnational subpolitics and corporate reflexivity and should be read by scholars and activists alike.' - Michele Micheletti, University of Stockholm, Sweden

The Moral Responsibility of Firms

2017-03-23 Business & Economics

Author : Eric W. Orts
Release : 2017-03-23
Genre : Business & Economics
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Download or read book The Moral Responsibility of Firms written by Eric W. Orts. This book was released on 2017-03-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 to 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. To recognize that these "business persons" can also act morally or immorally as organizations, however, 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 collects new contributions by leading business scholars in business ethics, philosophy, and related disciplines to extend our understanding of the "moral responsibility of firms."

Ethics in Practice

1989 Business & Economics

Author : Kenneth Richmond Andrews
Release : 1989
Genre : Business & Economics
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Download or read book Ethics in Practice written by Kenneth Richmond Andrews. This book was released on 1989. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethics in Practice includes 21 Harvard Business Review articles by corporate leaders of companies like Cadbury-Schweppes, Standard Oil of Ohio, Phillips, and Morgan Stanley, and from well-known observers like Robert Coles and Albert Z. Carr. The dilemmas they investigate represent painful choices for managers: whether to divest operations in South Africa, how to handle the "rogue division" whose practices compromise the whole company, how to curb a slide into price-fixing in an overcrowded market, and other issues. Includes extensive commentary by Kenneth Andrews. A Harvard Business Review Book.

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