Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to understanding of responsibility – specifically exploring responsibility in higher education. Design/methodology/approach – The paper details a research project undertaken in a higher education institute (HEI) in the UK. The research...

Purpose – The purpose of this final paper in the special issue is to extend the critical conversation that has run through this journal about the meaning and practice of responsibility. It will draw together material from the other papers, summarise what is meant by responsibility and offer...

Purpose – Businesses operate in a world facing a range of urgent global issues (UGIs). Unless an effective response is made in the near future, extremely damaging consequences are forecast. The purpose of this paper is to offer assistance to business leaders in balancing the short‐term local...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of responsible leadership. Design/methodology/approach – The author draws on a range of current literature and experiences to share views on the need for responsible leadership. Findings – The need for a new...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the notion of “responsibility”. Design/methodology/approach – Discussing the notion of “responsibility” according to two main philosophers (Paul Ricoeur and Hans Jonas) and its legal conception. Findings – In philosophy, the issue...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss aspects of responsibility in relation to organizational contexts, the main focus being responsibility for consequences we cannot reach. Responsibility is a major underpinning of business administration and management and also an aspect of...

Purpose – Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is conceptualized as the construct describing the relationship between companies and society. Although scholars reached an agreement about the linkages between CSR in small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) and psychosocial issues – social...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to re‐examine Milgram's obedience experiment and see how it can be used in management teaching and training. Milgram's discussion of authority, obedience and defence mechanisms are familiar to psychologists and sociologists, but less so to managers and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explain people's divergent perceptions of companies' corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities in order to help organizations strategically manage their global responsibilities. Design/methodology/approach – Combining institutional theory and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how one can prevent the flaws or dark sides of the globalisation process from leading to ever‐greater decay of responsibility. By decay of responsibility, is meant the threat that globalisation poses to what is referred to by philosophers...