The Responsibility to Share: Sharing the Responsibility

Slovenian SMEs: From the Environmental Responsibility to Corporate Social Responsibility

Environmental and societal issues are emphasising the social role of enterprises, including all size classes, even the smallest ones, so-called micro enterprises. This paper reflects on Slovenian SMEs. These enterprises are confronting ever increasing and changing expectations, demands and claims for accountability not concerning only economic, but also environmental and social performance. Env...

Sharing Responsibility for Clathrin Coat Assembly

September 2006 | Volume 4 | Issue 9 | e304 One reason to sequence the genomes of non-human organisms is to better understand our similarities and differences. And, at fi rst sight, it is hard to imagine a eukaryote more different from humans than Tetrahymena thermophila. A relative of Paramecium, this single-celled creature has a strong but fl exible exterior covered with rows of cilia; but it ...

Responsibility and cross-subsidization in cost sharing

We propose two axiomatic theories of cost sharing with the common premise that individual demands are comparable, though perhaps different, commodities, and that agents are responsible for their own demand. Under partial responsibility the agents are not responsible for the asymmetries of the cost function: two agents consuming the same amount of output always pay the same price; this holds tru...

The path to corporate responsibility.

Nike's tagline,"Just do it," is an inspirational call to action for the millions who wear the company's athletic gear. But in terms of corporate responsibility, Nike didn't always follow its own advice. In the 1990s, protesters railed against sweatshop conditions at some of its overseas suppliers and made Nike the global poster child for corporate ethical fecklessness. The intense pressure that...

The Revisionist’s Guide to Responsibility