Defining accountability in a network society

dc.contributor.authorPainter-Morland, Mollie
dc.contributor.emailmollie.painter-morland@up.ac.zaen
dc.date.accessioned2008-06-04T13:05:49Z
dc.date.available2008-06-04T13:05:49Z
dc.date.issued2007-07
dc.description.abstractThis paper challenges some of the basic epistemological assumptions that underpin our current conceptions of accountability. Recent legislative developments like Sarbanes-Oxley attempt to enhance accountability in the business environment through the employment of checks and balances and the threat of individual liability. This kind of legalistic strategy stilt seems to assume the existence of an individual agent who employs moral principles to come to decisions in a deliberate, impartial manner. This paper will emphasize that moral decision-making often does not take place in this manner, but is rather a tacit process of sensing what the appropriate behavior would be. Accountability, both with respect to individuals and organizations, is less a matter of "accounting for" a set of concrete assets, than a question of being accountable to a set of internal and external stakeholders, or in terms of the tacit sense of moral propriety that develops among business associates and colleagues over time.en
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dc.identifier.citationPainter-Morland, M 2007, 'Defining accountability in a network society', Business Ethics Quarterly, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 515-534. [http://www.pdcnet.org/beq.html.]en
dc.identifier.issn1052-150X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/5794
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherPhilosophy Documentation Centeren
dc.rightsPhilosophy Documentation Centeren
dc.subjectLiabilityen
dc.subjectStakeholdersen
dc.subject.lcshDecision makingen
dc.subject.lcshManagement -- Moral and ethical aspectsen
dc.subject.lcshCorporations -- Moral and ethical aspectsen
dc.subject.lcshBusiness Ethicsen
dc.subject.lcshResponsibilityen
dc.subject.lcshEconomicsen
dc.subject.lcshSocial epistemologyen
dc.titleDefining accountability in a network societyen
dc.typeArticleen

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