Which is an accurate statement about the modern business corporation.
A. The corporation, once approved by the state and given a corporate charter, is a legal actor and artificial “person” endowed with legal and certain constitutional rights.
B. According to the traditional, conservative, Milton Friedman, organizational view of the corporation, it is only a legal actor and has no moral or social responsibility and just must obey the law and pay taxes.
C. A true corporate code of ethics today must have some provisions that go “above and beyond” the law; that is, an ethics code cannot be a mere “restatement” of the law.
D. All of the above.