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If not, does moral responsibility fall entirely to specific individuals within the organization and can they be readily identified?   A perennial question in business ethics has concerned the extent to which business organizations can be correctly said to have moral responsibilities and obligations. In philosophical terms, this is a question of \"corporate moral agency.\" Whether firms can be said to be moral agents and to have the capacity for moral responsibility has significant practical consequences. In most legal systems in the world, business firms are recognized as \"persons\" with the ability to own property, to maintain and defend lawsuits, and to self-organize governance structures. To recognize that these \"business persons\" can also act morally or immorally as organizations, however, would justify the imposition of other legal constraints and normative expectations on organizations. 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