Collective and Corporate Responsibility / Peter A. French.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

French, Peter A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business ethics.

Corporations--Corrupt practices.

Corporations.

Criminal liability of juristic persons.

Industries--Social aspects.

Industries.

Social ethics.

Social responsibility of business.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [1984]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Explores the philosophy of corporate responsibility in in terms of collective vs individualist theory. It reports and defends distinctions among collectivities that run counter to individualist theory, develops a theory of the corporation as a moral person, and provides applications of the theory to actual cases.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

PREFACE

CHAPTER ONE. Types of Collectivities: A Preliminary Sorting

CHAPTER TWO. Crowds and Corporations

CHAPTER THREE. The Corporation as a Moral Person

CHAPTER FOUR. Corporate Internal Decision Structures

CHAPTER FIVE. The Power of the People in Groups and Corporations

CHAPTER SIX. Kinds and Persons

CHAPTER SEVEN. Plato, Bradley, Rousseau, and the Corporate Personality

CHAPTER EIGHT. Tribes

CHAPTER NINE. The Medical Profession

CHAPTER TEN. What Is Hamlet to McDonnell-Douglas or McDonnell-Douglas to Hamlet: DC-10

CHAPTER ELEVEN. The Principle of Responsive Adjustment: The Crash on Mount Erebus

CHAPTER TWELVE. Intention and Corporate Accountability

CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Corporate Criminality and the Model Penal Code

CHAPTER FOURTEEN. Punishing the Criminal Corporation

Notes

INDEX

Notes:

Includes index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780231879910

0231879911

OCLC:

1100429274