Should Romney get credit for job creation through Bain, if "any job creation was accidental"?

A NYT op-ed says no, but Jaltcoh implies that the answer is yes:

As [Thomas] Sowell points out [in "A Conflict of Visions"], we have a word for things in the "unintentional" + "harmful" quadrant: "negligence." We generally blame people for acting negligently. So, why shouldn't we praise people for doing the opposite — causing unintended benefits?