Dimensions of owners' social responsibility

The individual - in terms of its different social functions and its roles as the owner - is a constituent part of wider social environment (society), which, on the one side, gives him a guarantee for clearly defined rights and, on the other, obtains the owner´s promise of meeting certain obligations. According to the growth of accumulated wealth, the number of feasible (admissible) variants of behaviour of individuals increases, thus giving rise to the real freedom of an individual with the consequent requirement of enlarging its social duties and responsibilities. In order to be implemented, the responsibility postulate has to be operationalized however. The author therefore examines various alternatives of operalitonalization including the most flagrant cases of breaking the owner´s social responsibility producing serious social upheavals and ownership transformations in the past, and evaluates various corrective methodes applied in the Czech history. In conclusion of his paper the author suggests his proposal of prospective solution of the problem.