Book contents
- Reviews
- Corporate Responsibility for Wealth Creation and Human Rights
- Corporate Responsibility for Wealth Creation and Human Rights
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures, Tables and Boxes
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction and Overview
- 2 The Context of Globalization, Sustainability and Financialization
- Part I Wealth Creation
- Part II Human Rights as Public Goods in Wealth Creation
- Part III Implications of Wealth Creation and Human Rights for Corporate Responsibility
- 15 The Ethics of Business Organizations Is Called Corporate Responsibility
- 16 The Moral Status of the Business Organization
- 17 Mapping Corporate Responsibilities
- 18 Corporate Governance for Wealth Creation and Human Rights
- 19 A Case in Point: Corporate Responsibility for Less Income Inequality
- 20 A Case in Point: How Can Universities Promote Corporate Responsibility in Their Supply Chains? The Experience of the University of Notre Dame
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects
15 - The Ethics of Business Organizations Is Called Corporate Responsibility
from Part III - Implications of Wealth Creation and Human Rights for Corporate Responsibility
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 January 2021
- Reviews
- Corporate Responsibility for Wealth Creation and Human Rights
- Corporate Responsibility for Wealth Creation and Human Rights
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures, Tables and Boxes
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction and Overview
- 2 The Context of Globalization, Sustainability and Financialization
- Part I Wealth Creation
- Part II Human Rights as Public Goods in Wealth Creation
- Part III Implications of Wealth Creation and Human Rights for Corporate Responsibility
- 15 The Ethics of Business Organizations Is Called Corporate Responsibility
- 16 The Moral Status of the Business Organization
- 17 Mapping Corporate Responsibilities
- 18 Corporate Governance for Wealth Creation and Human Rights
- 19 A Case in Point: Corporate Responsibility for Less Income Inequality
- 20 A Case in Point: How Can Universities Promote Corporate Responsibility in Their Supply Chains? The Experience of the University of Notre Dame
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects
Summary
The broad vision of wealth creation and human rights developed in Part One and Two is now applied to the ethics of business organizations, which is called “corporate responsibility.” Based on Walter Schulz, the concept of responsibility is defined as a relational concept: the subject of responsibility (who is responsible), the content of responsibility (for what one is responsible) and the addressee (toward whom one is responsible). It involves an inner pole (“self-commitment originating out of freedom”) and an outer pole (“in a worldly relationship”) in critique of Max Weber’s separation of the ethics of convictions versus the ethics of responsibility. In an analogous sense, responsibility characterizes the ethics of business organizations, which is the same term used by the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. The chapter develops several ethical explications of the Guiding Principles and concludes with the concept of “corporate responsibility” adopted in this book.
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- Corporate Responsibility for Wealth Creation and Human Rights , pp. 161 - 177Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021