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Corporate responsibility and corporate personhood
Journal of Business Ethics, 1984In 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, 1992Despite 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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Corporate Personhood and Religious Liberty
2014This 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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Corporate Personhood and the Corporate Responsibility to Race
Journal of Business Ethics, 2018Often 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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Life Writing and Corporate Personhood
Biography, 2014This 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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The Corporate Personhood Two-Step
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017The 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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Of Corporations, Courts, Personhood, and Morality
Business Ethics Quarterly, 2015ABSTRACT: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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