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A Pathology of Group Agency

Social Theory and Practice
Pathologies of agency affect both groups and individuals. I present a case study of agential pathology in a group, in which supposedly rogue members of a group act in light of what they take the group’s interests and attitudes to be, but in a way that goes against the group’s explicitly stated agential point of view.
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Group Agency, Responsibility, and Control

Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 2012
Understanding how individual agency and group agency relate is of great importance for a range of philosophical and practical concerns, including responsibility ascription and institutional design. This article discusses the relation between corporate and individual responsibility in agency—in particular, the relation between corporate and individual ...
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Monsters and Their Makers: Group Agency Without Moral Agency

2017
Private business corporations and other organizations are often treated as objects of moral blame in public discourse. According to Peter French such talk of a group’s moral responsibility is to be taken literally: groups can constitute group agents that are appropriate subjects of moral responsibility.
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Is group agency a social phenomenon?

Synthese, 2017
It is generally assumed that group agency must be a social phenomenon because it involves interactions among many human beings. This assumption overlooks the real metaphysical nature of agency, which is both normative and voluntarist. Construed as a normative phenomenon, individual agency arises wherever there is a point of view from which deliberation
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Group agency, constitutivism and responsibility

2022
Philosophers of group agency have argued forcefully that we should view structured groups – with a hierarchy and decision mechanisms – as agents capable of rational and moral agency. These include, but are not limited to, corporations, universities, and states.
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Personal agency in employment groups

2009
The purpose of this study was to investigate the utility of viewing employment group programs as processes of enhancing personal agency. Personal causation theory (deCharms, 1976) was used to operationalize the concept of personal agency. Two questions were investigated.
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The sense of agency in perception, behaviour and human–machine interactions

Nature Reviews Psychology, 2022
Wen Wen, Hiroshi Imamizu, Imamizu Hiroshi   +2 more
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Change agency and reproductive agency in the course of industrial path evolution

Regional Studies, 2021
Nora Geirsdotter Bækkelund
exaly  

Group Agency

2011
Christian List, Philip Pettit
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Type I and type II agency conflicts in family firms: An empirical investigation

Journal of Business Research, 2022
Saptarshi Purkayastha, Rajaram Veliyath, Rejie George   +2 more
exaly