Corporate moral responsibility: What can we infer from our understanding of organisations?

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 161-169

  Wilmot, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DERBY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agent; Corporate; Moral; Personhood; Postmodern; Responsibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035285462     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006346125667     Document Type: Article

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