Original scientific paper
Corporate Social Responsibility and the Firm as a Person
Jérôme Ballet
; Center of Economics and Ethics for Environment and Development, University of Versailles, St. Quentin en Yvelines, France
Françoise de Bry
; Center of Economics and Ethics for Environment and Development, University of Versailles, St. Quentin en Yvelines, France
Abstract
Company responsibility has been defined under several concepts: Corporate Social Responsibility; Corporate Social Responsiveness, Corporate Social Performance etc. Nevertheless, a number of fundamental questions concerning responsibility remain unanswered. This article examines several of these questions. This responsibility is linked to the notion of a person. It is therefore necessary to define the company as a person. In fact, responsibility corresponds, before everything else, to a structure of intentions. It is hence necessary to define this structure.
Keywords
business ethics; person; property rights; structure of intention; responsibility
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35601
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Publication date:
1.7.2003.
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