企业道德责任

Corporate Moral Responsibility

Business Ethics Quarterly · 1995
被引 0
ABS 3

中文导读

从企业控制视角探讨企业道德责任是否具有实际影响,发现当个人责任缺失时企业责任起作用,并指出群体社会化过程(如群体思维)是削弱个人责任的关键因素。

Abstract

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. This article examines that question from a corporate control perspective. After assuming corporate moral responsibility’s existence for purposes of argument, the article concludes that such responsibility makes a difference in cases where it is present but personal responsibility is absent. Then the article tries to identify the forces that diminish personal responsibility when corporate responsibility exists. The most important such forces, it concludes, spring from the socialization processes people undergo when they enter groups. One example is the well-known phenomenon of groupthink, which can exculpate individuals by rendering them justifiably ignorant of foreseeable risks of harm.

商业伦理企业社会责任商业管理社会学政治学