The Foundations of Corporate Responsibility  

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Wilbur, James B.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Business Ethics vol. 1 no. 2 (May 1982), page 145-155.
Topik: Corporate Responsiblity

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: BB27.1 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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The thesis of this paper is that corporate activity can best be understood on analogy with the activity of persons. The ground for this analogy lies in the nature of activity itself which is common to both and to find a ground therein an analysis of the features of activity is presented based upon a comparison of 'activity' and 'process' by Alburey Castell. Activity is said to be bi-polar with one poel the purpose or goal to be handled in utilitarean fashion and the other pole concerned with the maintenance of the presuppositions of activity. While any goal chosen will have hypothetical 'oughts' as its conditions, it is argued that the presuppositions of activity are categorical 'oughts' in that they cannot be denied without asserting them. And since one of thse presuppositions is freedom of choice, thus giving activity the pwoer to destroy its own possibility, these presuppositions function in the cotnext of practice as categorical norms and are universal in their applicability as preserving the possiblity of responsible activity for everyone else as well as myself. All activity whether it be other-regarding or self-regarding (self-interest in the business world) is subject to the norms of its own possibility, its enabling conditions, and this constitutes the moral ground for personal, managerial and a basis for inquiry into corporate responsibility. All of these ideas are put forth within the wider context of the problem of corporate legitimacy and constitute a prolegomena to it.

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