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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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Corporate Personhood as Legal and Literary Fiction

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The Metaphysics and Politics of Corporate Personhood

Erkenntnis, 2014
This paper consists of brief critical comments on Chapter 8, “Personifying Group Agents”, of Christian List’s and Philip Pettit’s book Group Agency (2011). A first set of objections concerns the chapter’s history of ideas. List and Pettit present the history of the idea of corporate personhood as divided between “intrinsicist” and “performative ...
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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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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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The Corporate Baby in the Bathwater: Why Proposals to Abolish Corporate Personhood Are Misguided

Journal of Business Ethics, 2022
David Gindis
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The two faces of personhood: Hobbes, corporate agency and the personality of the state

European Journal of Political Theory, 2021
Sean Fleming
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Corporate Personhood and Fiduciary Duties as Critical Constructs in Developing Stakeholder Management Theory and Corporate Purpose

Strategy Science, 2023
Joseph T Mahoney
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International Corporate Personhood

2021
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Relating fiduciary duties to corporate personhood and corporate purpose

2018
The subjects of corporate personhood, corporate purpose, and fiduciary duties are all central to corporate law discourse. But what is the relationship of each of these to the others? This chapter describes how corporate personhood, corporate purpose, and fiduciary duties are vitally and coherently connected.
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