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In his article “The Moral Responsibility of Corporate Executives for Disasters”, John Bishop has argued that we are justified on moral considerations for holding corporate executives responsible for disasters resulting from corporate activities, even in circumstances where they could not reasonably have been expected to possess the information necessary to avert these disasters. I argue that he is mistaken in this claim.
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Robert A. Larmer is an Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of New Brunswick. He is the author of Water Into Wine? An Investigation of the Concept of Miracle, the editor of a forthcoming text Ethics in the Workplace, and the editor of a forthcoming book on miracles.
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Larmer, R. Corporate executives: Disasters and moral responsibility. J Bus Ethics 15, 785–788 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00381742
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00381742