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  • Social responsibility and Adam Smith's economic theory [Elektronski vir]
    Knez-Riedl, Jožica ; Mulej, Matjaž
    If people strictly considered Adam Smith's economic theory the conditions could not surface in which large companies are both a minority and a nearly total power over the global economy and society. ... Their power would be no problem, if enterprises did not misuse their influence and favor short-term and narrowly defined interests and benefits over longterm and broader ones. Then, there would be no need for efforts toward requisite holism (RH) of human behavior, i.e. monitoring, perception, thinking, emotional and spiritual life, decision making, and action, aimed at causing the requisite wholeness of insight and outcome that is rare now. In the context of the dangerous contemporary practice - the blind alley of abusing Adam Smith to the benefit of a monopolistic tiny majority of humankind - social responsibility (SR) can have the form of charity and other kinds of a better care for coworkers and other business partners, broader society, and natural environment; all of these make sense, but are not enough. SR can also provide up-grading of methods of informal systemic thinking such as 'total quality management' etc. But SR may mean much more, too - a new way out from the blind alley of humankind that is, after the phases of competitiveness based on natural resources, investment, and innovation, respectively, approaching the phase of affluence except in areas failing to innovate enough. Affluence is both a top fulfillment of human desires, and a blind alley: increasingly affluence in which people have everything felt needed, or crisis, makes people no longer motivated to work and buy (or it makes people eager to consume over their needs and throw away, because they lose the sense of rationality as well as of empathy, such as the 'nouveaux riches'). SR in synergy with RH of human behavior, and with creativity that is aimed at the Fromm's transition from human being-owner to human being-creator, might possibly save the current human civilization from destruction that has happened in all previous civilization in their phases of affluence. SR is a process of social innovation and its well-founded end/objective.
    Vir: Sustainable future, requisite holism, and social responsibility [Elektronski vir] : (against the current abuse of free market society) (Str. [98-108])
    Vrsta gradiva - e-članek
    Leto - 2008
    Jezik - angleški
    COBISS.SI-ID - 9639708

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