Corporate Culpability and the Limits of Law

Ethicists and legal theorists have proposed models of corporate culpability that shift the standard of guilt determination from vicarious attribution of individual action and intention to an assessment of culture, policies, as well as organizational action and inaction. This paper briefly reviews fo...

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Auteur principal: Laufer, William S. (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Cambridge Univ. Press 1996
Dans: Business ethics quarterly
Année: 1996, Volume: 6, Numéro: 3, Pages: 311-324
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Résumé:Ethicists and legal theorists have proposed models of corporate culpability that shift the standard of guilt determination from vicarious attribution of individual action and intention to an assessment of culture, policies, as well as organizational action and inaction. This paper briefly reviews four prominent models of corporate culpability, arguing that each makes claims that extend well beyond the limits of existing law. As an alternative to these models, a constructive corporate fault is described that relies on both objective and subjective reasonableness judgments. The paper concludes with a consideration of constructive corporate fault in relation to an Accountability model of corporate liability.
ISSN:2153-3326
Contient:Enthalten in: Business ethics quarterly
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.2307/3857462