v1n9: Wettstein Responds to Smith on Corporate Political Responsibility

“Morality Meet Politics, Politics Meet Morality: Exploring the Political in Political Responsibility” by Florian Wettstein

A RESPONSE TO Jeffery Smith (2013), “Corporate Human Rights Obligations: Moral or Political?”, Bus Ethics J Rev 1(2): 7-13.

Abstract: This brief response to Smith focuses on his distinction between moral and political responsibility in general and how it relates to human rights in particular. I argue that the notion of political responsibility as it is used in the debate on political CSR often does not exclude morality but is based on it.

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