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What is Responsibility

Chapter 5
CSR and Socially Responsible Investing Strategies in Transitioning and Emerging Economies
A duty or obligation to satisfactorily perform or complete a task (assigned by someone, or created by one's own promise or circumstances) that one must fulfill, and which has a consequent penalty for failure (Business Dictionary: http://www.businessdictionary.com/ ).
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Communicating Socially Responsible Initiatives: New Incentives to Sustainable Development
Ekaterina Arabska (University of Agribusiness and Rural Development, Bulgaria)
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 28
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-2193-9.ch005
Abstract
The purpose of the chapter is to present results of case studies of socially responsible initiatives and their communication inside and outside the organizations through the official websites impacting their performance and image, as well as to make recommendations for improvements. Investigations focus on forms and goals of initiatives taken by companies in Bulgaria, including examples of the influence of foreign corporate practice and experience. Theoretical and practical basis and trends, international framework, and national institutional positions and support to corporate social responsibility are discussed. Socially responsible activities are analyzed through the official websites in their short- and long-term aspects and links to sustainable development initiatives. Main CSR principles are defined, and a model is proposed containing the main steps of incorporating CSR strategies in companies and linking all that to business communications and public relations. A special focus is put on capacity building and CSR teams.
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Chapter 7
Logical Modeling of Emotions for Ambient Intelligence
An agent i is responsible for causing p if and only if i has performed a certain action and if i had not performed this action then p would not be true now. For example a driver is responsible for causing an accident by running a red light because if he had not, then the accident would not have occurred.
Published in Chapter: Logical Modeling of Emotions for Ambient Intelligence; From: Handbook of Research on Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments: Trends and Perspectives
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Chapter 24
Big Data and Its Role in Facilitating the Visualization of Financial Analytics
Responsibility Accounting is a reporting system that compiles Revenue, Cost and profit information at the level of those individual managers most directly responsible for them. The intent is to provide this information to those people most able to act upon it as well as to judge their performance. 1.Resources available to a firm, 2. The means employed to finance those resources, and 3. The results achieved through their use.
Published in Chapter: Big Data and Its Role in Facilitating the Visualization of Financial Analytics; From: Handbook of Research on Big Data Storage and Visualization Techniques
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Chapter 13
Accountability, Responsibility, and Public Trust in Non-Profit Institutions: Linking Conceptual Pillars for the Construction of a “Bridge” of Virtuous Managerialism
Conduct of an action that is rational with respect to the purpose it sets out and which measures the relationship between the means and targets as well as the consequences that the action can produce.
Published in Chapter: Accountability, Responsibility, and Public Trust in Non-Profit Institutions: Linking Conceptual Pillars for the Construction of a “Bridge” of Virtuous Managerialism; From: Cases on Corporate Social Responsibility and Contemporary Issues in Organizations
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Chapter 8
Corporate Social Responsibility and Analysis of Its Social Dimension in Hotels in Malaga
This is understood as a moral solidarity for others that include corporate and individual liability for the acts.
Published in Chapter: Corporate Social Responsibility and Analysis of Its Social Dimension in Hotels in Malaga; From: Global Perspectives on Human Rights and the Impact of Tourism Consumption in the 21st Century
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Chapter 11
Finding Star Performer Leaders: The Secret to Running Successful Organizations
In addition to living according to a set of principles, values and beliefs which guide one’s decisions and ability to do the right thing, this is also the consistency of one’s moral integrity when one is with family members, friends and/or colleagues. Fundamentally, this is based on the ability to understand the difference between right and wrong and to act accordingly.
Published in Chapter: Finding Star Performer Leaders: The Secret to Running Successful Organizations; From: Handbook of Research on Strategic Communication, Leadership, and Conflict Management in Modern Organizations
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Chapter 12
Social and Emotional Teaching for STEAM Through Read-Aloud: Kindergarteners Learning to “Feel Courage-Able”
Having a sense duty to deal with the consequences of ones’ actions. In STEAM fields, responsibility is having a sense of vision toward the long-term implications of ones’ creations and discoveries.
Published in Chapter: Social and Emotional Teaching for STEAM Through Read-Aloud: Kindergarteners Learning to “Feel Courage-Able”; From: Handbook of Research on Supporting Social and Emotional Development Through Literacy Education
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Chapter 15
Social, Political and Ethical Responsibility in Broadband Adoption and Diffusion: A German Case Study
Structurally responsibility is the ascription of an object to a subject with the aim of setting sanctions. The whole social construct of responsibility is meant to improve social life. Responsibility ascriptions are complex social interactions that need to consider a range of angles and dimension.
Published in Chapter: Social, Political and Ethical Responsibility in Broadband Adoption and Diffusion: A German Case Study; From: Handbook of Research on Global Diffusion of Broadband Data Transmission
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Chapter 8
Blended Social Skills Intervention for Students Identified as Emotionally and Behaviorally Disturbed
The capability to appropriately tailor one’s behavior to the situation at hand.
Published in Chapter: Blended Social Skills Intervention for Students Identified as Emotionally and Behaviorally Disturbed; From: Leveraging Technology to Improve School Safety and Student Wellbeing
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Chapter 17
Approaches towards Measuring Success in Public Elementary Schools
Internal self-guidance, a combination of thought and action based on our sense of what is right, good, fair, appropriate, or beautiful. It involves full mind and conscience as well as external performance of duty.
Published in Chapter: Approaches towards Measuring Success in Public Elementary Schools; From: Handbook of Research on Managerial Solutions in Non-Profit Organizations
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Chapter 542
Ethics of Biomedical and Information Technologies
Property of moral agency for which the subject or the community are able to respond of the effects of their activity.
Published in Chapter: Ethics of Biomedical and Information Technologies; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Third Edition
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