Moral Agency in Charities and Business Corporations: Exploring the Constraints of Law and Regulation
基于哲学文献，探讨法律如何塑造英格兰的慈善机构和商业公司行使道德主体性的能力，发现慈善机构在法律上受到的约束反而比商业公司更多。
For centuries in the UK and elsewhere, charities have been widely regarded as admirable and virtuous organisations. Business corporations, by contrast, have been characterised in the popular imagination as entities that lack a capacity for moral judgement. Drawing on the philosophical literature on the moral agency of organisations, we examine how the law shapes the ability of charities and business corporations headquartered in England to exercise moral agency. Paradoxically, we find that charities are legally constrained in exercising moral agency in ways in which business corporations are not. Implications for charities and business corporations are then explored.