Assessing Arms Makers' Corporate Social responsibility

摘要

During the proof procedure of this article the below mentioned corrections were erroneously omitted. CHANGE #1: Under '2. The Arms Industry Would Fail a CSR Social Equity Requirement' replace the first paragraph with the following: Most proponents of SRI and of versions of CSR that recognize the validity of stakeholder theory require that a corporation's products and services not inflict harm unduly on people in societies where they are situated. This includes points of origin but must include points of arrival as well, especially in a globalized economy. This, however, is not the perspective fostered by the US arms industry, which seeks to apply everywhere the individualist interpretation of a right to bear arms that already obfuscates moral assessments of corporate liability in the United States. A corollary of this perspective is a convenient washing of hands known in the literature as recipient-side responsibility.