ABSTRACT
This chapter descrines the contested topic of corporate moral agency and introduces the broader aspects of the debate. It discusses a influential attempt to justify and explain corporate moral agency, and explores the possible relevance of corporate moral agency to the wider issue of corporate social responsibility. Another obstacle to taking corporations into account as genuine political and moral agents, besides reducing them to the amoral system or the norm-free market. To grasp the core of the dispute over corporate moral agency one needs first to see that the individualists and the collectivists share the assumption that it does make sense to ascribe moral responsibility to corporations. Another key topic in the dispute between the individualist and the collectivist on corporate moral agency is the question about the fairness in blaming individual members of the organization for corporate deeds. Objections have been levelled against the List–Pettit account of corporate moral agency.
