RT Article
T1 Silence as Complicity: Elements of a Corporate Duty to Speak Out Against the Violation of Human Rights
JF Business ethics quarterly
VO 22
IS 1
SP 37
OP 61
A1 Wettstein, Florian
LA English
PB Cambridge Univ. Press
YR 2012
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1824196814
AB Increasingly, global businesses are confronted with the question of complicity in human rights violations committed by abusive host governments. This contribution specifically looks at silent complicity and the way it challenges conventional interpretations of corporate responsibility. Silent complicity implies that corporations have moral obligations that reach beyond the negative realm of doing no harm. Essentially, it implies that corporations have a moral responsibility to help protect human rights by putting pressure on perpetrating host governments involved in human rights abuses. This is a controversial claim, which this contribution proposes to analyze with a view to understanding and determining the underlying conditions that need to be met in order for moral agents to be said to have such responsibilities in the category of the duty to protect human rights.
K1 Corporate Responsibility
K1 corporate power
K1 silent complicity
K1 Multinational Corporations
K1 Human Rights
DO 10.5840/beq20122214