Identification of Social Irresponsibility Manifestations in the Social Responsibility Management System in a Small Enterprise—Importance, Place and Conditions

Abstract

The aim of the epistemological article is to recognize the possibility of identification of social irresponsibility manifestations in the social responsibility management system in a small enterprise. Research problems are presented in the form of a few questions presented in introduction. The considerations include: characteristics of the notion of social irresponsibility of an enterprise, presentation of the specificity of the social responsibility management system in a small enterprise, and manifestations of socially irresponsible activities of a small enterprise, as well as the importance, place and internal and external conditions of the identification of social irresponsibility manifestations in the social responsibility management system in a small enterprise. The key conclusion of the considerations included in the article is a postulate on the need to include the analysis of socially irresponsible activities of a small enterprise to assess its social responsibility state. The limited scope of the study also did not allow to introduce possible symptoms of social irresponsibility in: economic, legal, ethical and philanthropic areas to internal and external stakeholders, but also the effects of social identification of irresponsibility and consequences for other elements of social responsibility management, etc., in theoretical, empirical and application dimensions, which may be the basis for the author’s subsequent publications.