Making corporations responsible

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Title: Making corporations responsible
Author(s): Legge, John M.
Abstract: Corporations are legal fictions: a corporation is an artificial person. Nevertheless, a corporation is capable of entering into contracts and capable of suing and being sued in courts of law. This raises the question of corporate action: what acts are corporate acts, and what are purely those of individuals with some relationship to the corporation; who decides what actions a corporation should take, given that circumstances arise requiring a decision; and what are the legal obligations placed on those who make these decisions? John M. Legge exemplifies that many widely-held perceptions about the consequences of corporate behaviour are incorrect.
Publication type: Journal article
Research centre: Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Business and Enterprise
Source: Dissent, No. 27 (Spring 2008), pp. 31-36
Publication year: 2008
Keyword(s): Australia; Corporate culture; Corporation law; Directors of corporations; Organizational behavior; Social Sciences; Stockholders
Publisher: Dissent Publications
ISSN: 1443-2102
Publisher URL: http://www.dissent.com.au/
Peer reviewed