TY - CHAP

T1 - Ordo-Responsibility

T2 - Conceptual Reflections towards a Semantic Innovation

AU - Beckmann, Markus

AU - Pies, Ingo

PY - 2008

Y1 - 2008

N2 - Based on economic ethics, this chapter refl ects on and aims to improve thesemantics of responsibility. The traditional concept of responsibility is threatenedwith 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-fi nding 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-refl ected interests.

AB - Based on economic ethics, this chapter refl ects on and aims to improve thesemantics of responsibility. The traditional concept of responsibility is threatenedwith 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-fi nding 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-refl ected interests.

KW - Sustainability sciences, Management & Economics

KW - Ordo-Responsibility

KW - Semantic Innovation

KW - Corporate Citizenship

KW - Ethical Theory

M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

SN - 978-0-7546-7383-5

SP - 87

EP - 115

BT - Corporate Citizenship, Contractarianism and Ethical Theory

A2 - Conill, Jesús

A2 - Lütge, Christoph

A2 - Schönwälder-Kuntze, Tatjana

PB - Ashgate Publishing Limited

CY - London

ER -