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      • Firms are considered legal persons and are therefore held liable for wrongdoing on moral grounds, but they are also composed of individuals who are morally responsible for their behaviour.
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  2. In a new book titled The Moral Responsibility of Firms, authors Eric Orts and Craig Smith and contributor Amy Sepinwall argue that companies are indeed morally culpable.

  3. The basic argument there is that you have an individualist point of view, and it really doesnt make sense to attribute the idea of moral responsibility to firms. It's a common view in the field of business ethics that you don't check your morals at the office door,” says professor Eric Orts.

  4. Mar 21, 2014 · Theoretically, a strong case can be made for the moral responsibility of firms. However, this does not preclude individual moral responsibility for acts as a corporate member.

  5. Mar 30, 2017 · A perennial question in business ethics concerns the extent to which business firms and organizations have moral responsibilitiesor not. In philosophical terms, the question is whether organizations themselves have “moral agency.”

  6. Mar 21, 2014 · Moral responsibilities apply to human activities organised in firms – whether collectively, individually, or both. A basic question presented by our conference is whether moral responsibility exists at the collective level of the firm, the individual level of human actors within firms, or both.

  7. Drawing on evidence from hundreds of research studies, the authors offer a framework for helping workers build moral character. Managers can provide experiential training in ethical dilemmas.

  8. The debate over corporate moral responsibility has become a fixture in business ethics research and teaching. Only rarely, however, does the sizable literature on that question consider whether the debate has important practical implications.

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