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...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the crisis of the business profession and the role that management education can play in renewing business management. It is argued that unless future managers demonstrate that they serve the common good in their daily practice, the legitimacy...