Organisational integrity and responsibility

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Organisational integrity encompasses not only integrity in organisations, at the level of individual members, but also integrity of organisations, at the level of the collective social entity. But any robust inquiry over integrity at organisational level first requires a robust account over the possibility to consider organisations as morally responsible entities. This chapter provides a critical overview of the current state of research over the possibility to ascribe collective moral responsibility to organisations, whereby the unit of moral evaluation is the organisation as an entity. The chapter takes a stance in favour of holding organisations morally responsible per se, at a distinct level from their individual members. The normative perspective is complemented with an illustration of the way collective approaches to corporate moral responsibility can be applied in practice, extending previous research with a novel correlation between individual and organisational levels of integrity and blame ascriptions for unethical outcomes of organisational activity.

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