Rethinking corporate agency in business, philosophy and law

Samuel Francis Mansell; Robert John Ferguson; David Gindis; Avia Pasternak

doi:10.1007/s10551-018-3895-1

Rethinking corporate agency in business, philosophy and law

Samuel Francis Mansell, Robert John Ferguson, David Gindis, Avia Pasternak

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Abstract

While researchers in business ethics, moral philosophy and jurisprudence have advanced the study of corporate agency, there have been very few attempts to bring together insights from these and other disciplines in the pages of the Journal of Business Ethics. By introducing to an audience of business ethics scholars the work of outstanding authors working outside the field this interdisciplinary special issue addresses this lacuna. Its aim is to encourage the formulation of innovative arguments that reinvigorate the study of corporate agency and stimulate further cross-fertilization of ideas between business ethics, law, philosophy and other disciplines.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	893-899
Journal	Journal of Business Ethics
Volume	154
Issue number	4
Early online date	28 Apr 2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-018-3895-1
Publication status	Published - Feb 2019

Keywords

Corporation
Group agent
Corporate agency
Corporate personhood
Corporate rights
Collective responsibility
Corporate responsibility
Interdisciplinarity

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