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| Author: | Lindkvist, L. Llewellyn, S. |
| Title: | Accountability, Responsibility and Organization |
| Journal: | Scandinavian Journal of Management
2003 : JUN, VOL. 19:2, p. 251-274 |
| Index terms: | ACCOUNTABILITY RESPONSIBILITY ORGANIZATION |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Societies achieve their purposes through organizations. But organizations may develop into instrumental entities bereft of ethical debate. Roberts claims that their hierarchical accountability systems powerfully reinforce instrumentality and individualize accountability. The authors criticize this attempt in certain respects and propose a responsibility/accountability (R/A) framework-allowing for an extended exposition of individual senses of R/A, and of organizational forms that could contribute to promoting such senses. The authors believe that a framing of this kind should benefit analysis and facilitate a shift in focus away from top-down control and non-reflective accountability and towards individual agency and responsibility. |
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