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(2019) Systems thinking and moral imagination, Dordrecht, Springer.
Corporate moral agency and the responsibility to respect human rights in the un guiding principles
do corporations have moral rights?
Patricia Werhane
pp. 427-446
In this article Werhane raises the question of whether non-persons such as organizations and corporations have basic rights, as recently argued in the United Nations Guiding Principles, referred to as the Ruggie Principles (2011). Developing a complex view of organizational rights as secondary moral rights, Werhane argues that the corporate obligations to respect human rights spelled out in the Ruggie Principles entail a conclusion that corporations themselves have moral rights too. However, such rights must be considered strictly as secondary moral rights since organizations are not independent of their human constituents.Original publication: Werhane, P.H. 2016, "Corporate Moral Agency and the Responsibility to Respect Human Rights in the UN Guiding Principles: Do Corporations Have Moral Rights?", Business and Human Rights Journal, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 5–20. ©2016 Reprinted with permission.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-89797-4_25
Full citation:
Werhane, P. (2019)., Corporate moral agency and the responsibility to respect human rights in the un guiding principles: do corporations have moral rights?, in D. Bevan & R. W. Wolfe (eds.), Systems thinking and moral imagination, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 427-446.
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