This paper discusses the role of accountability in responsibility ascriptions regarding information and communication technology (ICT). It starts with a definition of responsibility as the social construct representing the ascription of an object to a subject. Recounting the traditional responsibility, the paper will point out the weaknesses of responsibility with regards to ICT. It will then p...

China ratified the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in 2001. It thus bears obligations under Article 12 of the covenant to take appropriate measures at the domestic level to realize the right to health in China. Accountability is an important component of the right to health. This article examines whether the Western concept of accountability, recently imported int...

BACKGROUND This paper presents a conceptual framework developed from empirical evidence, to guide medical schools aspiring towards greater social accountability. METHODS Using a multiple case study approach, seventy-five staff, students, health sector representatives and community members, associated with four medical schools, participated in semi-structured interviews. Two schools were in Au...

BACKGROUND Definitions of social accountability describe the obligation of medical schools to direct education, research and service activities towards addressing the priority health concerns of the population they serve. While such statements give some direction as to how the goal might be reached, it does not identify what factors might facilitate or hinder its achievement. This study set out...

Objective: The present study was to identify the dimensions and components of promoting accountability of high school principals in Hormozgan province. Method: The present study was a qualitative, descriptive and thematic analysis with an exploratory inductive approach. In this study, up to data saturation, 10 experts who had done research in the field of educational management and were expe...

Individual and organizational actions have social consequences that call for the implementation of recommendations of good conduct at multiple levels of granularity. This work focuses on the accountability value, on how to express it, and on the challenges of handling accountability in a computational way, in a system of interacting agents.

With the 100th anniversary of Flexner’s seminal report on medical education, The Lancet published guidelines by a global independent Commission that aimed to establish a 21st-century vision for the education of health professionals. As young doctors, we applaud the Commission for moving beyond professional silos to new models of interprofessional collaboration. But there should be more emphasis...

We assess the extent of preferences for employment in a collective wage bargaining situation with heterogeneous workers. We vary the size of the union and introduce a treatment mechanism transforming the voting game into an individual allocation task. Our results show that highly productive workers do not take employment of low productive workers into account when making wage proposals, regardl...