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Corporate Ethics in The Corporation
While I enjoyed watching The Corporation, I agree with some of the other posts that it presented a fairly one-sided picture of the corporate world. Personally, what I have witnessed in the past few years in social media, the news and in chatting with friends has been a general indictment of large corporations. The Corporation is […]
Class 3: All About Shares (& other stuff)
The other stuff being logistics. The slides are amended to reflect that we did not get to “Corporate Adventures in TV Land”, but other than that and correcting some typos they are what we went though today including the slides pertaining to “The Corporation” even though that discussion is not in the video. The rest […]
Thoughts about “The Corporation”
There were two discussion points in the film that I found particularly interesting in relation to the idea that the human version of a corporation is a psychopath. First, the idea that corporations often only obey the law when it is cost-effective to do so. An example given was corporations not following environmental policies that […]
Considering “The Corporation”
Like many of my classmates, I was intrigued by the idea of corporate personhood after viewing The Corporation. The idea of corporate personhood is strangely familiar and pervasive, despite being something I have not given much thought to in the past (beyond acknowledging a vague discomfort with the idea whenever it was raised). Following Monday’s […]
Class 2: Business Organizations & Real Contexts
Video and Slides below: jon
Class 1: Introduction to the Course
Slides from our first class below. jon
On “The Corporation”
Having jumped into this discussion relatively late, I appreciate that a lot of my peers have rather succinctly captured my first impression of the film. I find one of the most interest parts of the film is that it has been 13 years since the film premiered and basically nothing has changed. It is an […]
Thoughts on “The Corporation”
I found The Corporation to be informative, however, it only emphasized the idea that corporations only look out for their own interest at the expense of society. I think it is evident that there have been times corporations have gone too far in their search for profits, however, it is also their search for profits […]
The Corporation & Our Role as Lawyers
When “The Corporation” came out in 2003, my Grade 7 science teacher had us watch it and at the time I thought it was painfully boring, aside from the parts about advertising to children and corporations sending messages via marketing, because well, I was more of a child at that time. I remain […]
“The Corporation” Reflection
The documentary, while clearly setting out numerous examples of situations in which a corporation performs socially undesirable acts in the name of profit, reaches a conclusion which I am not entirely comfortable with, namely that corporations are psychopathic entities. My discomfort with this conclusion stems from the fact that corporations are anthropomorphised in order to […]