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Corporate Office, Corporate Irresponsibility and the Constitutive Vicariousness of Corporate Power
Evil Corporations: Law, Culpability and Regulation, pp.141-158
Routledge
2025
Abstract
This chapter develops a theory of ‘corporate office’ that understands the exercise of corporate power as constitutively vicarious – always exercised on behalf of another – and, therefore, never fully reducible or attributable to a particular agent or actor. This constitutive vicariousness gives rise to a structural irresponsibility at the core of the corporate form, which the attempts to impose corporate responsibility consistently come up against. This is because, when acting on behalf of a corporation, an individual's personal responsibility is separated from the ultimate effects of the actions taken, emphasising instead the fulfilment of the duties and requirements of the role or office to be performed.
Details
- Title
- Corporate Office, Corporate Irresponsibility and the Constitutive Vicariousness of Corporate Power
- Authors
- Timothy Peters - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Law and Society
- Contributors
- Penny Crofts (Editor) - University of Technology Sydney
- Publication details
- Evil Corporations: Law, Culpability and Regulation, pp.141-158
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Date published
- 2025
- DOI
- 10.4324/9781003402534-13; 10.4324/9781003402534
- ISBN
- 9781003402534
- Organisation Unit
- School of Law and Society
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991049698902621
- Output Type
- Book chapter
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