Concept Of Responsibility Research Articles

Concepts and main signs of administrative responsibility: analysis of modern administrative and legal literature

In the article, the author states some principle theses regarding the essence of administrative responsibility. In particular, it was determined that in modern concepts of administrative responsibility, the problem of assessing law from general systemic and philosophical positions, which reflects the general laws and principles of society, integrating the substantive and phenomenal characteristics of socio-legal reality, which includes theoretical and methodological criteria for assessing law in relation to absolute (legal substance) and derived order (optimal requirements of social reality, concentrated in traditional mentality).
 The author supports the thesis that one of the defects of the administrative-delict legislation is the normative consolidation of provisions regarding the possibility of establishing the composition of a misdemeanor and responsibility for its commission, as well as the application of relevant norms outside the Criminal Code. This approach to the construction of legislation on administrative responsibility is a condition for the occurrence of collisions, which actually discredit both the legislator and the law enforcer. Emphasis is placed on the fact that administrative offenses are socially harmful, anti-social phenomena. Recognizing administrative offenses as socially harmful, and not socially dangerous, is the criterion by which it becomes possible to distinguish between crimes and administrative offenses.
 On the basis of the above, the author believes that administrative responsibility is a complex legal mechanism of the state’s response to the manifestation of administrative wrongdoing, which contains material and legal grounds and the procedural order of proceedings in cases of administrative offenses. The basis of administrative responsibility is differentiated administrative wrongdoing, composition of administrative offense; administrative penalty (substantive legal aspect) and procedural form.

Development of the Concept of Corporate Social Responsibility: Practice in Ukraine

The article considers topical issues of the implementation of the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Ukraine. It is emphasized that the concept of corporate social responsibility involves changes in the legal support of the self-regulation of economic activity. CSR in Ukraine includes the voluntary establishment of norms on social corporate responsibility and determination of the mechanism and means of its implementation. The submission of a corporate social responsibility report is an essential element of CSR though it is not currently mandatory in Ukraine. In Ukraine, the development of CSR in agriculture should be a priority. It has been established that CSR advocacy is insufficient in Ukraine, and therefore public authorities and non-governmental organizations have to introduce the practice of explaining the need introduce and implement CSR institutions through seminars, conferences, training on responsible business behavior, educational programs, and training courses. Observance of labor rights and guarantees should be a mandatory task for Ukrainian companies in terms of CSR development. It is proposed to amend a number of regulations namely the Law of Ukraine “On Business Associations” and the Economic Code of Ukraine. The creation of the Concept for the Development of Corporate Social Responsibility should determine the prospects and directions of CSR support by the state, expand the interaction between business entities and civil society, systematize existing and prospective tools for its development. Such changes update the implementation of the rules of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU and they will facilitate the implementation of the rules on CSR liability in practice.Taking into account the ongoing war of Russia against Ukraine since 2014 and its new stage – the full-scale invasion by Russia of Ukraine in 2022, business entities have proposed the separation of CSR policies in the conditions of war. Human rights protection of the conditions of war, workers’ safety (mobilization, evacuation), the organization of the business entity’s work (the responsibility of each employee from the head of the company to the lower level of the executive, payment of labor, taxes, etc.); assistance to the state, armed forces, employees, and other citizens, termination of cooperation with counterparty residents in the Russian Federation and Belarus, withdrawal from the market, etc. of these countries should become the key elements of such policies. The preservation of human life will be an overriding imperative of CSR in wartime.

Implementation Of The Basic Concept Of Corporate Social Responsibility As A Branding Strategy at Amboina Restaurant

Companies carry out their social responsibility in various forms and each company implements CSR in several ways. This restaurant produces heavy food such as mixed rice, soto, rawon, and egg petis. The uniqueness of this restaurant is that when producing food, it has a unique taste image, namely with the typical spices of Bangkalan Regency which is rich in spices, besides that it is no less interesting with large pieces of fish compared to the others, with its uniqueness this Amboina restaurant applies one of the following: One CSR triple bottom line is people, so the researcher proposes to apply all triple bottom lines with the aim of obtaining a positive image in the hope of having a long product life cycle. This research is a qualitative type with an interview method that obtains the results of this study, namely the proposal of triple bottom line people in the form of social action, performance innovation, and employee rewards. Planet with training in reducing household waste that is used as fertilizer and liquid soap. Profit in the form of CSR regarding financial science to be more specific in processing finances.

Maturity of CSR Implementation at the Organizational Level—From Literature Review to a Comprehensive Model

This paper fills the gap in the studies addressing the problem of corporate social responsibility (CSR) concept implementation maturity in an organization approached holistically. It is based on an integrative literature review covering 104 publications indexed in WoS and Scopus. The literature review shows that the maturity of the implementation of CSR at the organizational level is rarely the subject of assessment. The authors dealing with CSR maturity focus their deliberations on such specific areas of enterprise functioning as IT, operational management, supply management, product design and project management. Other authors place CSR among different areas that should be taken into account while determining the maturity of implementation of Industry 4.0 or organizational reputation management. The most commonly used measurement is the five-point scale of the levels typical for CMMI. The theoretical models presented in the source literature are rarely subject to empirical operationalization. This study offers a four-dimensional CSR maturity model that can be used to assess the maturity level of the CSR concept implementation in different types of organizations and also to analyze and compare the maturity levels of different organizations. The dimensions are areas, stakeholders, actions and participation. There are five levels of CSR maturity and only the achievement of the fifth levels in all four dimensions proves the highest level of CSR. The usefulness of the model was determined by eight experts (practitioners working in different organizations) with the use of the “sum-score decision rule”. Both practical and theoretical implications result from this model.

Climate change education in China: a pioneering case of its implementation in tertiary education and its effects on students’ beliefs and attitudes

PurposeIn view of a lack of evidence on the effectiveness of climate change education (CCE) in China, this study aims to evaluate if a CCE course newly designed based on research recommendations and implemented with established pedagogy was effective in changing the beliefs and attitudes of first-year science students.Design/methodology/approachThis study took a simple longitudinal approach with surveys administered at the beginning and the end of the course and the differences in the responses analyzed with nonparametric statistical analyses.FindingsThe results showed that the course produced significant changes in the beliefs concerning the anthropogenic causes of climate change and vulnerability to its impacts, which results in inequality of the impacts received. However, the course did not produce significant attitudinal changes among the students. Spearman’s correlation, which affirmed the belief–attitude association, revealed that the students already had desirable attitudes toward climate change and these attitudes had not been reinforced. The students’ perception of the importance of local government in climate action increased by the end of the course. Multimedia-aid learning, debates and discussions were useful in conveying the concepts of responsibility, ethics and vulnerability, but the addition of student-led community projects will increase personal significance of the course.Research limitations/implicationsThis study is instrumental for the development of a regional model of CCE in the mainstreaming of education for sustainable development in China, knowing that the regional approach is crucial to address the nuances in climate change knowledge, hence conceptions and beliefs across regions and, even, between different sectors of a region. This regional experience could also serve as a reference for other similar settings, particularly those of the developing countries.Originality/valueThis study presents one of the very few studies dedicated to gauging the effects of CCE in China, particularly of a newly developed climate change course, on the beliefs and attitudes of students. This permits pedagogical development and continuous improvement of CCE in China.

Can the district development model deliver development in South African local governments?

With the advent of democracy in South Africa, local government was targeted for transformation to be more representative of and responsive to local communities’ needs. Boundaries were extended such that all areas in the country fell within a municipality. In addition to providing essential services such as water and sanitation, municipalities must promote social and economic development. They must also prepare an Integrated Development Plan that informs the municipality’s activities, budget and should ensure focussed and coordinated delivery of services.
 However, local government has been plagued with severe problems such as a lack of capacity and resources, poor governance and limited intergovernmental and intra-municipal coordination. President Ramaphosa (Current term 2018–2023) in his 2019 budget speech announced a District Development Model (DDM) intended to spatialise and coordinate government interventions and support municipalities in response to these issues. This paper describes the challenges facing local government and outlines the DDM concept and its rationale in the context of these challenges. We consider the potential of this model to improve the performance of local government, improve spatial governance and promote social and economic development. We conclude that the DDM may not be sucessful as it does not address the core problems of local government. A candid review of the current concept of local government, its powers, responsibilities, capacities and relationships is required.

Reporting to God. The religious background of corporate social responsibility in Islamic enterprises – airlines

Purpose: The aim of the article is to present the role played by ethics and religion in shaping the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on the example of Islam. Therefore, this paper focuses on CSR in Islamic companies and attempts to discover whether Islamic countries are a cultural circle where culture and religion are advantageous when developing CSR. Methodology/approach: A case study was used to determine CSR disclosure in airlines. Findings: The results showed that ethics and philanthropy were important to CSR disclosure in Islamic companies. Religion in Islamic countries has a huge impact on companies disclosing their philanthropical and ethical activities. Practical implications: This paper will better enable academics and practitioners to understand CSR problems in Islamic countries. Our research underlines the role of ethics and religion in the context of CSR. Originality/value: This paper makes an important contribution by highlighting the importance of ethics to CSR in Islam countries and raises the possibility of CSR reporting being adopted in Islamic companies.

Unfair Commercial Practices and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) In the Digital World

Abstract Summary The article investigates the connection between the unfair commercial practices and the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) from the perspective of consumer law. With the use of descriptive analysis and normative argument, it provides examples of unfair commercial practices by large enterprises within the travel sector and explains how they breach the EU legal regulation. The article concludes that the concept of CSR covers actions which go above the basic legal regulation and since the practices performed by the enterprises within the travel sector discussed in the article breach several legal regulations, they may not be presented as CSR activities.

Theoretical Aspects of CSR on the Context of Bioeconomy

Abstract History connected with the evolution of the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility is long, in contrast with history connected with development of the concept of bioeconomy, which is still relatively new. The aim of this paper is to systematically review both concepts in context of one another along with ways of thinking that contributed to the understanding of these concepts that we have now. The applied method is literature review by which it will be possible to choose the most interesting as well as important perspectives that shaped both concepts. This paper can be beneficial to those who search for relevance of CSR with focus on environmental sustainability, how can it address environmental issues of nowadays, that can be used for implications in practice, and how the views on CSR as well as bioeconomy developed over time.

ВЗАИМОСВЯЗЬ КАТЕГОРИЙ ОТВЕТСТВЕННОСТИ И ВИНЫ: ЛИНГВИСТИЧЕСКИЙ, ПСИХОЛОГИЧЕСКИЙ И СОЦИАЛЬНО-ПРАВОВОЙ АНАЛИЗ

The article provides a scientific analysis of the categories of guilt and responsibility, taking into account the approaches formed in linguistics, sociology, psychology and jurisprudence. It is noted that the concepts of guilt and responsibility, as phenomena filled with specific historical content and character, are polyscientific categories and are the subject of research in many sciences: psychology, jurisprudence, history of philosophy, sociology. The article examines the main theories of deviance that formulate the conduct of a subject deviating from the normal: the economic theory of deviance, the theory of heterogeneity and variability of the normative value system of society, the theory of social destabilization and the theory of stigmatization. In addition, within the framework of the studied phenomena from a legal point of view, statistical data on the crime rate in the Russian Federation, conducted on a sample of different periods, are provided. In conclusion, the article concludes that the subject builds his own line of behavior in society based on an internal attitude, an available alternative, freedom of choice, guided by his own desires and interests. And if such a choice is made towards deviant behavior, then such a fact inevitably mediates the process of the offender's legal responsibility from a socio-legal point of view and the individual's suffering of guilt from a psychological point of view.

Corporate Social Responsibility: A Legislative Gateway

India a country of as much diversity as is a hotspot for numerous contradictions. On the one hand, after much hardship, the country has emerged as one of the surging economies and a very important player in the new global order. In contrast, on the other hand, it is still combating issues related to impoverishment, starvation, and rights of undernourished children, societal welfare, and the like. The Indian economy sometimes rides a wave of boon and sometimes that of bane, which is because of an uneven, unseemly distribution of wealth throughout, which only increases social unrest; this uneven development and growth spread across the nation has targeted companies and corporate organizations for their contributions to the society. The scrutiny has only been increasing with the rising awareness of the gaps between the haves and the have-nots, which has further led to an outpouring in society’s expectations from the corporate giants. To this, the government has responded proactively, taking most of the corporate houses in its stride to provide for the society without commercial success and hence developing the nation getting in the way. The concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), a practice where companies realize profits and fulfill philanthropic, societal expectations, has taken ground since times immemorial only to become mandatory later. In the background of such a premise, CSR has time and again presented itself as a wonderful opportunity, the need of every hour and also as a serious challenge to be overcome, with its implications on almost every sector. Ever since it became a legal mandate in the year 2014, India has been a thriving “hotbed for innovative CSR scenarios,” in the words of D S Rawa, Former Secretary-General of ASSOCHAM. This paper seeks to trace the advent and growth of Corporate Social Responsibility in India through the eyes of the law, having undergone multiple legislative changes ever since the inception of the Companies Act, 2013. The paper also analyses the legislative amendments that are already afoot and awaiting enforcement. The researcher has tried to suggest the best possible ideological way forward in light of these multifarious changes, illuminating CSR’s import and primacy as a practice in the wake of the same.

The Concept of Extended Producer Responsibility in the Field of Packaging Industry and the Energy Sector in the Light of the Circular Economy—The Example of Poland

The aim of this article is to analyze the effectiveness of the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) concept for packaging in the context of the transition to a Circular Economy (CE) and the corresponding transformation of the energy sector. The functioning of today’s packaging industry is becoming more and more linked to the assumptions of the CE due to the use and recycling of raw materials. The basic research method used in this work is an analysis of the literature on the links between the concept of the EPR and the CE. The authors limited their research to the selected legal, economic and social aspects of packaging production and management in the European Union (EU). The situation in Poland is discussed in particular and the legal, economic and social specificity of the implementation of the EPR in this country is presented. This paper emphasizes the dependance between the implementation of the EPR concept and the effectiveness of the transformation toward a CE, which is achieved by increasing the circularity in the energy sector.

Explaining causality of node (non-)participation in network communities

Discovering communities in networks constitutes an active and significant research field, especially in real-world networks, where communities usually represent functional units of these networks. In the introduced work, we study the community discovery problem in real-world networks from a different perspective. Our motivation stems from inquiries related to the cause of a node’s participation in a community. Therefore, we incorporate the concepts of causality and responsibility into a novel framework. Our goal is to set up a framework to discover explainable causal relations between nodes and communities, which is a topic that has not been investigated before. We evaluate the proposed framework by experimenting on real-world networks. Moreover, the introduced framework is flexible to be used to other network-related analysis tasks, beyond community detection, such as link prediction, anomaly detection, influence maximization.

Corporate social responsibility: to the issue of origins

The article substantiates the need for a unified approach to the study of such economic phenomena as corporate social responsibility, business ethics, corporate culture and sustainable development. The author proposes to develop A. Carroll’s ideas on the gradual increase in the level of social responsibility of business as it develops on the basis of the renewability principle of economic and non-economic benefits. The objective nature of business participation in the production of not only economic, but also non-economic resources is substantiated. Risks for businesses of prematurely taking on excess obligations are noted. The article explains the need for an existential choice of the enterprise management to take responsibility for the consequences of its activities as a condition for implementing the concept of corporate social responsibility. The implementation of this choice occurs at a certain level of development of the individuals involved in the business.

СОЦІАЛЬНА ВІДПОВІДАЛЬНІСТЬ МЕДІА В УМОВАХ РОСІЙСЬКО-УКРАЇНСЬКОЇ ВІЙНИ

<p><strong><em>The purpose </em></strong><em>of the study is to characterize the trends of the development of social responsibility of the media.</em></p><p><strong><em>Research methodology</em></strong><em>. The effective operation of mass media as business projects is part of the development of the Ukrainian economy. The management of media business should be based on the concept of sustainable development proposed by G. Daly «Beyond growth. Economic theory of sustainable development». Corporate social responsibility is considered at the microeconomic level: corporate social responsibility and business social responsibility.</em></p><p><strong><em>The results</em></strong><em>. The article is devoted to the social responsibility of the media in the new crisis situation. Traditionally, the social responsibility of the media is considered in the context of working with the audience, compliance with professional standards in order to create a quality journalistic product, but the social responsibility of the media is also the provision of decent working conditions for media specialists. Models of social responsibility of business in society have several basic variants of corporate responsibility of business. The current situation in the field of media business has received new concepts of corporate activism and corporate social responsibility. The subject of the research is actualized in the context of changing the conditions of media business functioning during the war, creating a number of challenges for media communities. The modern media business suffered significant losses during the war, which affected the working and living conditions of media specialists.</em></p><p><strong><em>Novelty.</em></strong><em> The social responsibility of the media increased in the new crisis conditions, which were the beginning of the active phase of the Russian-Ukrainian war, the informational component of the war also increased, and Ukrainian media workers demonstrated solidarity and the ability to work for the benefit of public interests. The social standards of newsrooms have also undergone changes, emphasizing the social insecurity of media workers.</em></p><p><strong><em>Practical significance</em></strong><em>. The results of the research can be used in the process of studying communication courses, forming media reality of the specialties «Journalism», «Advertising and public relations», «Information affairs», as well as by media practitioners in issues of interaction with the audience.</em></p><p><strong><em>Key words</em></strong><em>: corporate social responsibility, mass media, social media, media reality, anti-discrimination practices, European democratic values, journalist's professional ethics.</em></p>

Mandatory CSR in India – A Trailblazer from the East

The paper attempts to trace the evolution of the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and seeks to gather how it turned out to be a boon for the developing nations of the world, particularly countries like India. By the path-breaking promulgation of the Companies Act, 2013, CSR was made mandatory in India, for companies meeting the financial thresholds mentioned in Section 135 of the Act. The author seeks to study the journey of CSR in India, the present law, and the latest amendments made to the same in recent times. The paper evaluates the rationale behind the mandatory CSR law and how it can be a game-changer in India Inc.’s commitment to social causes. The author has also suggested how the mandatory CSR regime in India can be further strengthened to contribute meaningfully, particularly in the fields of education and healthcare, through better project identification, stronger execution linkages, an overhaul of the board committees, flexible and pragmatic government rules, and synchronization of the corporate CSR activities with the lead programmes of the Government of India. These reinforcements can go a long way in making the CSR approach much more effective and value accretive.

From Stakeholder to Rightsholder Perspectives The UNGPs, SDGs and New Paradigms for Corporate Accountability

This essay explores the extent to which the emerging field of Business and Human Rights presents an opportunity to push our theorizing in new directions and extend our understanding of the potential role that accounting could play in contributing to a better and more sustainable world. The paper critically explores the stakeholder conception of corporate social responsibility that has dominated research on Social and Environmental Accounting to date. The first substantive part of the paper outlines the three main strands of stakeholder theory research: descriptive accuracy, normative validity, and instrumental power and begins to explore how the rightsholder perspective, encapsulated in the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights, extends these three perspectives and addresses some of the limitations in stakeholder theory. The second substantive section outlines two specific opportunities for new directions in accounting research: first concerning the connection between corporate accountability and democracy and second about the theorization of accounting measurement. The first issue relates to the theory of the firm, the second, to our theory of value.

Pemidanaan terhadap Anak sebagai Pelaku Tindak Pidana Terorisme

This study aims to examine the criminalization of children as perpetrators of terrorism and the appropriate criminal sanctions against children as perpetrators of terrorism. This study uses normative legal research method because it examines and analyzes the criminalization of children as perpetrators of terrorism and the regulation of sanctions. The result of the study is that a child involved in terrorism network receives special protection from the state based on the mandate of UUPA considering that the child as a perpetrator of terrorism is actually a victim of the terrorism network itself. Regarding Child Perpetrators of Terrorism crimes, the SPPA Law has not regulated the handling of Child Perpetrators of terrorism. However, children are still children who must be protected and fulfill all their rights. The concept of criminal responsibility applied to adults cannot be applied to children as perpetrators of terrorism, as stipulated in Law No. 11/2012 on Juvenile Justice System.DOI: https://doi.org/10.26905/mlj.v3i2.9214

Challenging the hidden curriculum: Building a lived process for responsibility in responsible management education

This essay argues that conceptualisations of responsibility in the responsible management education literature are generally superficial or unstated. We propose that this leads to practical understandings of responsibility being drawn from the hidden curriculum of socialised learning in the background of formal educational contexts. To disrupt this and enable critical thought and action, we argue for the integration of three perspectives that can be combined in a dynamic, lived process. First, we suggest that evidence-based management challenges us to seek out evidence to inform responsible management practice in ways that are thoughtful, critical and reflexive. Second, we argue that an interpretive approach employing philosophical hermeneutics connects responsibility to situated judgement about how we should interpret evidence available to us in the context of lived human experience in dialogue with others. Third, deconstruction reveals (aspects of) the ways in which the hidden curriculum constructs responsibility in the context of responsible management education texts and talk – and helps us to remain open to other possibilities. We integrate these three perspectives to arrive at a definition of responsibility as a lived process with implications for students, educators and the institutions they inhabit.

The Issue of Trust in Civil Law

Public life transformation, including transformation caused by digitalization processes and expansion of remote interaction capabilities, determines changes in essential features of trust and conditions for its formation and manifistation. Today, the priority task is to create an environment of trust in the digital sphere and beyond it to ensure progress and social development. Various civil law mechanisms can contribute to this, including consistent implementation of the principle of good faith, development of the institute of business reputation, formation of civil law communities, including virtual ones with a special nature of interconnections, improvement and expansion of the use of blockchain technology. Trust formation should contribute to the implementation of a generally permissive method of civil law regulation of relations, including those arising in the digital sphere. Certain difficulties are associated with the fact that the concept of trust is not disclosed in the current legislation. The category of trust in civil law is usually considered in a narrow sense in relation to cases of personal trust relations between subjects when they make fiduciary transactions, although civil law also knows the concepts of fiduciary property, fiduciary duties and responsibility. Trust between the participants of the civil turnover is assumed, but its low level entails risks associated with the choice of a counterparty. In this regard, judicial practice develops a standard of prudent behavior expected from a reasonable participant in comparable circumstances, which is taken into account in tax legal relations. In the future, civil legislation and judicial practice should follow the path of improving the mechanisms of influencing public relations, contributing to the formation of an environment of trust and protection of participants in civil turnover from unfair and illegal actions.