Public Views of Corporate Responsibility for Wrong doing

公众对企业错误行为责任的看法

• 批准号: 8822598
• 负责人: Valerie Hans
• 金额: $ 14.29万
• 依托单位: University of Delaware
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1989
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1989-05-01 至 1993-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8822598&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Public; Views; Corporate; Responsibility; Wrong

One of the most striking phenomena in the contemporary legal world is the shift toward holding group entities such as corporations responsible for harm. Legal and social changes have produced a gradual movement away from individual responsibility for injuries toward a collective source of responsibility--the organization. Today business corporations are expected to provide compensation for injuries that in earlier times would have been attributed to individuals or to fate. Despite a good deal of legal scholarship on the shift toward holding businesses culpable for harms, little systematic work has been done on lay views of corporate responsibility. Basic knowledge about public views is critical because public attitudes influence substantive law and legal procedure in a variety of ways and likely also affect the behavior of corporations. This research is intended to provide the first systematic account of lay views of corporate responsibility for wrongdoing. A series of interrelated studies employing multiple methods will be conducted to examine why people hold corporations responsible. The first approach is a telephone survey of a random sample of 450 residents from a single mid-Atlantic state. The survey will provide a profile of the content, structure, and individual determinants of general attitudes toward corporate wrongdoing. The second approach is an interview study of jurors who have participated in civil trials with corporations or businesses as parties. Comparisons of interview and public opinion data will show whether jurors who decide issues of corporate responsibility within a rich and detailed legal setting reflect the same concerns and attitudinal structures of survey respondents. A final set of studies uses the experimental method of mock jury simulation to examine factors affecting judgments of corporate responsibility for wrongdoing. These experiments will test the impact of financial resources and identity (individual versus type of corporation) of the defendant on judgments of wrongdoing. The project is designed to provide convergent data on the key factors that lead the public to hold corporations responsible for harmdoing. Often, the failure to take action against corporate lawlessness has been justified by claims that the public sees such lawlessness as "morally neutral" behavior. This research will illuminate the conditions under which citizens support intervention in the corporate community. More generally, the research will advance understanding of the problem of collective responsibility. Collective responsibility issues arise for a variety of groups and organizations such as governments, political parties, and voluntary associations. Furthermore, the responsibility of groups is an important matter in the criminal justice system in cases involving conspiracy, complicity, and accessories to crime.

当代法律的中最引人注目的现象之一 世界是转向控股集团实体，如 公司对伤害负责。 法律的和社会的变化 产生了一种逐渐远离个人责任的运动， 对伤害的集体责任来源-- organization. 今天，企业应该 为早期的伤害提供补偿， 都是个人或命运造成的 尽管一个好的 关于向控股企业转变的法律的学术研究 对伤害负责，很少有系统的工作已经做了奠定 企业责任观。 公共基础知识 观点至关重要，因为公众态度影响实质性内容 法律和法律的程序，并可能还 影响企业的行为。 这项研究旨在提供第一个系统的帐户， 对公司不法行为责任的外行观点。 一 将采用多种方法进行一系列相互关联的研究， 调查为什么人们认为公司应该负责。 第一种方法是电话调查的随机抽样， 450名居民来自大西洋中部的一个州 调查将 提供内容、结构和个人的概况 对公司不法行为的一般态度的决定因素。 第二种方法是对陪审员进行访谈研究， 参与公司或企业的民事审判， parties. 访谈和民意数据的比较将 表明决定公司责任问题的陪审员 在一个丰富而详细的法律的设置反映了相同的 调查对象的关切和态度结构。 一 最后一组研究采用模拟陪审团的实验方法 模拟检验影响公司判断的因素 为不法行为负责。 这些实验将测试 财政资源和身份的影响（个人与 （二）被告人的犯罪行为。 该项目的目的是提供收敛数据的关键 导致公众要求公司承担责任的因素 伤害 通常情况下，未能采取行动反对企业 无法无天的行为被公众认为是正当的 这种无法无天的“道德中立”行为。 本研究 将阐明公民支持的条件 对企业界的干预。 更一般地 研究将促进对集体问题的理解 责任 集体责任问题的出现， 各种团体和组织，如政府， 政党和志愿协会。 而且 集团责任是刑事诉讼中的一个重要问题， 司法系统在涉及共谋、共谋和 犯罪的帮凶