TY - UNPB

T1 - Ordo-Responsibility

T2 - Conceptual Reflections towards a Semantic Innovation

AU - Beckmann, Markus

AU - Pies, Ingo

PY - 2006

Y1 - 2006

N2 - Based on economic ethics, this paper reflects on and aims to improve the semantics of responsibility. The traditional concept of responsibility is threatened with erosion when responsibility is attributed to an actor who is unable to exercise individual control over the outcome of his actions. In the modern world-society this is increasingly the case. The concept of ordo-responsibility is helpful in identifying a suitable approach for the attribution and acceptance of responsibility. The perspective of economic ethics systematically differentiates between the initial basic game of business and the related meta-games of politics and public discourse. In this way, the focus shifts to the rule-setting processes and rule-finding discourses for which the actors can accept governance responsibility and discourse responsibility, respectively. These two forms of ordo-responsibility demonstrate a characteristic which is extremely important for processes of “New Governance”: they can be attributed to corporative actors, and they can be perceived by them in their own well-reflected interests.

AB - Based on economic ethics, this paper reflects on and aims to improve the semantics of responsibility. The traditional concept of responsibility is threatened with erosion when responsibility is attributed to an actor who is unable to exercise individual control over the outcome of his actions. In the modern world-society this is increasingly the case. The concept of ordo-responsibility is helpful in identifying a suitable approach for the attribution and acceptance of responsibility. The perspective of economic ethics systematically differentiates between the initial basic game of business and the related meta-games of politics and public discourse. In this way, the focus shifts to the rule-setting processes and rule-finding discourses for which the actors can accept governance responsibility and discourse responsibility, respectively. These two forms of ordo-responsibility demonstrate a characteristic which is extremely important for processes of “New Governance”: they can be attributed to corporative actors, and they can be perceived by them in their own well-reflected interests.

KW - Sustainability sciences, Management & Economics

KW - Ordnungsverantwortung

KW - Ordonomik

KW - Semantik

KW - Ordo-Responsibility

KW - ordonomics

KW - Semantics

M3 - Working papers

SN - 978-3-86010-863-5

T3 - Diskussionspapiere

BT - Ordo-Responsibility

PB - Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg

CY - Halle-Wittenberg

ER -