RT Article
T1 Fictitious persons and real responsibilities
JF Journal of business ethics
VO 14
IS 9
SP 761
OP 767
A1 Gibson, Kevin
LA English
PB Springer Science + Business Media B. V
YR 1995
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1785606670
AB I believe that corporations should be held responsible for their actions. Traditional discussions about the moral responsibility of an organization have relied on a model of criminal intent. Demonstrating intent demands that we find a moral agent capable of intending, and this has led to problems. Here I replace the analysis based on criminal law by one based on tort law. Under this framework I suggest that corporations can be held responsible for the harms caused by their activities even if no person or persons in their decision making structure had formed malicious intent, since the sheer fact that the corporate environment encouraged or allowed negligence will be sufficient.
K1 Real Responsibility
K1 Corporate Environment
K1 Moral Agent
K1 Moral Responsibility
K1 Economic Growth
DO 10.1007/BF00872329