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Bioethics in Gerontology: Developing a Typology of Ethical Issues in Assisted Living. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Appl Gerontol
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Corporate Personhood and Religious Liberty

2014
This chapter examines the claim at the heart of Hobby Lobby: do corporations have a right to exercise religion? Gans says no, because this is a personal right tied to conscience, conviction, and human dignity. No court has ever protected the right of businesses to practice religion.
David H. Gans, Ilya Shapiro
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Constructing legal personhood: corporate law’s legacy

Griffith Law Review, 2021
Legal personality – its nature and function – has become a topic of renewed interest. In particular, there is increasing interest in extending existing categories of legal personality.
Michelle Worthington, Peta Spender
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Corporate responsibility and corporate personhood

Journal of Business Ethics, 1984
In this paper, I consider the claim that a corporation cannot be held to be morally responsible unless it is a person. First, I argue that this claim is ambigious. ‘Person’ flags three different but related notions: ‘metaphysical person’, ‘moral agent’, ‘moral person’. I argue that, though one can make the claim that corporates are metaphysical persons,
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Corporate Moral Personhood and Three Conceptions of the Corporation

Business Ethics Quarterly, 1992
Despite some exceptions, the business ethics literature on the moral responsibility of corporations does not emphasize a subject critical to that inquiry: the general nature of corporations. This article attempts to lessen the imbalance by describing three conceptions of the corporation that have been prominent in twentieth century legal theorizing ...
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The Corporate Personhood Two-Step

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017
The corporation cannot exist without founders complying explicitly with the requirements for incorporation provided by state statutes. The artificial entity theory acknowledges that a corporation does not exist until its founders meet all requirements for corporate formation imposed by the state.
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Life Writing and Corporate Personhood

Biography, 2014
This introduction outlines different manifestations of corporate personhood, including advertising, skinvertising, activist corporate impersonation, and the equation of corporations with celebrity CEOs. We contextualize corporate personhood in relation to recent attempts to claim rights for fetuses, along with more progressive articulations of ...
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Thinking strategically about ‘corporate personhood’

Human Systems Management, 2017
The conceptual categories ‘person’ ‘citizen’ and ‘moral-agent’ are re-analyzed in a way that integrates perspectives, takes into account interactivity and makes helpful use of models or diagrams. The primary-qualities of these three categories are duly emphasized.
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