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LIT-1874: Corporate Agency and Possible Futures

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StatusUnfetched — filed 2026-10-30, not read. The publisher's open-access copy (CC BY 4.0) is at https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10551-018-3887-1.pdf. On 2026-10-30 that address, and the article page link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10551-018-3887-1, answered HTTP 200 with a 3 kB "Client Challenge" page that needs JavaScript, not the PDF, on two tries. The St Andrews repository copy that OpenAlex lists (hdl.handle.net/10023/13302, resolving to research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/handle/10023/13302) timed out twice with no bytes received, and a Wayback capture of the Springer PDF was refused (connection reset). No NOTE is filed. It stays Unfetched until a copy is supplied, not on merit. Free copy: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10551-018-3887-1.pdf.
Tagssocial-ontology, personhood, future-generations, ethics

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Mulgan, T. (2019). Corporate Agency and Possible Futures. Journal of Business Ethics, 154(4), 901–916. doi:10.1007/s10551-018-3887-1. Published online 3 May 2018. Open access, CC BY 4.0.

Why this is here

CLAIM-271, THEORY-131 and THEORY-139 each record that Velasquez’s objection, that a corporation is not an agent and so not morally responsible (LIT-1429, LIT-1432), is registered and unread. Both of Velasquez’s papers are Unavailable. This paper was found on 2026-10-30 as one that sets out Velasquez’s position among the accounts of corporate agency it weighs. It could not be fetched, so whether it reports Velasquez closely enough to stand in for him is not known.

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