A5052160155- Ethics in Business and Education
- Corporate Finance and Governance
- Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting
- Economic Theory and Institutions
- State Capitalism and Financial Governance
- Political Economy and Marxism
- Complex Systems and Decision Making
- Management and Organizational Studies
- Corporate Governance and Law
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
- Philosophical Ethics and Theory
- Community Development and Social Impact
- Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
- Foucault, Power, and Ethics
- Ethics in medical practice
- Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism
- American Constitutional Law and Politics
- Political Philosophy and Ethics
- Legal principles and applications
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Securities Regulation and Market Practices
- Free Will and Agency
- Political Theology and Sovereignty
- Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy
University of St Andrews
2012-2024
University of Essex
2006-2008
Abstract The notion that business corporations should be managed for the exclusive benefit of shareholders has been widely challenged. In particular, critics have argued directors are authorised to serve interests corporation : a legal entity is completely separate from its shareholders. However, premise sole legitimate claim ‘membership’ rarely questioned. This article explores medieval thought on ownership, authority and participation in guilds, churches, towns universities, shows...
For centuries in the UK and elsewhere, charities have been widely regarded as admirable virtuous organisations. Business corporations, by contrast, characterised popular imagination entities that lack a capacity for moral judgement. Drawing on philosophical literature agency of organisations, we examine how law shapes ability business corporations headquartered England to exercise agency. Paradoxically, find are legally constrained exercising ways which not. Implications then explored.
that the book fails to engage critically with 'synthetic construct' of corporation.While Veldman is in agreement book's conclusion 'claims stakeholder theory remain little more than inconsistent and untenable moral claims entitlement', he nonetheless objects my argument reinforces 'the neoclassical framework capitalist relations' by omitting any scrutiny corporate form itself. does not directly central 'stakeholder' conceptions corporation are ethical principles necessarily underpin working...
From where does management acquire its authority to act in the name of corporation? The orthodoxy that shareholders alone authorise is frequently criticised for treating corporation as property shareholders, rather than a distinct legal person own right (Ciepley, 2013; Deakin, 2012; Robé, 2011; Stout, 2012). However, Hobbes’s theory incorporation Leviathan shows this influential critique shareholder primacy rest on non sequitur. It not follow from (correct) observation conclusion interests...
While researchers in business ethics, moral philosophy and jurisprudence have advanced the study of corporate agency, there been very few attempts to bring together insights from these other disciplines pages Journal Business Ethics. By introducing an audience ethics scholars work outstanding authors working outside field this interdisciplinary special issue addresses lacuna. Its aim is encourage formulation innovative arguments that reinvigorate agency stimulate further cross-fertilization...
The rise of modern corporations has been accompanied by an expansion salaried executives who have replaced owner-managers. With this expansion, the new class managers/executives came to regard themselves as stewards large and complex corporations, not principally or exclusively agents for owners. Emerging a self- styled 'profession', there was continuous debate around necessity corporation be responsible collective its stakeholders. During long parts twentieth century professed intent...