Analyse du filme the smartest guy in the room (enron) full english
At the origin a corporation was a group of people regrouped to do something special (build a building, a bridge or other stuff like that). these corporations were created with a fixed capital, time life and a precise function (What they do) and this corporation can't own another one. Another important ethical point is that share older were responsible of their corporation acts ! But originally it was to serve the public interest. The civil ware and the industrial time had stimulate the corporation creation due to the amount of rail road project and other industrial creation. At the end of this one some lawyers found more profitable to change status of corporation and now a corporation is like a morale person in this way the 14em amendment protect them as a regular people…
But what is a moral person ? What the advantage for a corporation to be a corporation ? Take a studies case as a owner of 10 store in a city ; in order to simplify the financial management he would like to create a unique group with all his store on it. So he apply for a corporation and the government deliver a "license" and after that all the 10 stores are like one company and this company is a moral person and now this "human company" can buy, sell property, do a loan as a citizen. But the main difference with a citizen and new corporation is that a citizen as bad he could be have a morale conscience….while actual corporation doesn't seem to have a morale conscience….
What the common objective between old corporation and actual ? The objective….make much money as possible. Due to a law a corporation have to take only care of his profits and no more to satisfy stocks holder. To maximize profits they try to externalize cost. But originally share older were responsible of corporation acts so they take care of this