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Corporate Personhood and the Corporate Responsibility to Race

Journal of Business Ethics, 2018
Often overlooked in studies of the corporation is the recognition that the modern corporate form and its power are rooted in the issue of race, and more specifically, in racial oppression. The racialized roots of the corporation become exposed when we acknowledge the significance of slavery and the Fourteenth Amendment to the evolution of the corporate
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The hijacking of a new corporate form? Benefit corporations and corporate personhood

Economy and Society, 2016
AbstractBenefit corporations are a new type of corporate entity developed to remedy antisocial corporate behaviour by enabling mission-driven investors, managers and entrepreneurs to prioritize social values and contest the idea that profits are the only and best measure of corporate performance.
Jane L. Collins, Walker N. Kahn
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Identity, Responsibility and Corporate Personhood

2015
In this chapter we will look at one particular aspect of the idea of corporate identity, namely that of responsibility, and how far this might be explained in terms of personhood.
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Corporate personhood: Lay perceptions and ethical consequences.

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2017
Modern conceptions of corporate personhood have spurred considerable debate about the rights that society should afford business organizations. Across eight experiments, we compare lay perceptions of how corporations and people use rights, and also explore the consequences of these judgments. We find that people believe corporations, compared to humans,
Arthur S, Jago, Kristin, Laurin
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Of Corporations, Courts, Personhood, and Morality

Business Ethics Quarterly, 2015
ABSTRACT:Since the dawn of capitalism, corporations have been regarded by the law as separate legal “persons.” Corporate “personhood” has nonetheless remained controversial, and our understanding of corporate personhood often influences our thinking about the social responsibilities of corporations. This essay, written in honor of Prof.
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The Ambiguous Significance of Corporate Personhood

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2001
Political controversies over the place of the business corporation in American society and the appropriate objectives of corporate law have been going on for a long time. Proponents of shareholder primacy have argued that shareholder wealth maximization should guide corporate law.
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Can Corporate Personhood Be Socially Responsible?

2007
Abstract Corporate personhood creates equality before the law that results in inequality in human society. It permits corporate appeals to justice that result in human injustice. These claims—the first legal, the latter moral—appeal to the ideals of human equality before the law and universal participation in the political community ...
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Integrative oncology: Addressing the global challenges of cancer prevention and treatment

Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2022
Jun J Mao,, Msce, Lorenzo Cohen, Karen M Mustian   +2 more
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Corporate Personhood: Lay Perceptions and Moral Consequences

Academy of Management Proceedings, 2016
Modern conceptions of corporate personhood have spurred considerable debate about the rights that society should afford business organizations.
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The four functions of corporate personhood

2013
In this article I argue that the legal device of creating separate juridical “persons” for certain business activities serves at least four functions that became especially important to business organizers during and after the industrial revolution, and that those functions are still important to most large, publicly-traded corporations.
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