1. The analysis will be congruent with, for the most part, the views set forth in J. Angelo Corlett, “Corporate Punishment and Responsibility,” Journal of Social Philosophy, XXVIII (1997), pp. 96–100; “Collective Punishment,” in Encyclopedic Dictionary of Business Ethics, Edited by Patricia Werhane and R. Edward Freeman (London: Blackwell, 1997), pp. 117–20; “Collective Responsibility,” in Werhane and Freeman, pp. 120–25; “Corporate Responsibility for Environmental Damage,” Environmental Ethics, 18 (1996), pp. 195–207; “Collective Punishment and Public Policy,” Journal of Business Ethics, 11 (1992), pp. 207–16; “Corporate Responsibility and Punishment,” Public Affairs Quarterly, 2 (1988), pp. 1–16.
2. Margaret Gilbert, Sociality and Responsibility (Totowa: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000), p. 152.
3. Burleigh T. Wilkins, Terrorism and Collective Responsibility (London: Routledge, 1992), p. 97.
4. Joel Feinberg, Doing and Deserving (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1970), p. 223.
5. This condition is related to the notion of collective feelings of guilt based on collective wrongdoing. For an incisive discussion of collective guilt, see Margaret Gilbert, “Group Wrongs and Guilt Feelings,” The Journal of Ethics, 1 (1997), pp. 65–84.