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Bioetička uporišta korporativne društvene odgovornosti
Bioethical Strongholds of Corporate Social Responsibility

Author(s): Iva Rinčić Lerga
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Institut društvenih znanosti Ivo Pilar
Keywords: bioethics; corporation; corporate social responsibility

Summary/Abstract: In the last few decades the concept of responsibility from the legal field has become one of the central ethical and most recently bioethical categories and issues of research. Notwithstanding the evident increase of theoretical investigation and of interest for the practice of responsibility in the sense of an ethical category, it is still difficult to offer a one-sided and unambiguous definition of the referred to concept. This situation is exposed to difficulties as presently it is already possible to speak of different types/levels of responsibilities – thereby literature recognizes causational responsibility, personal responsibility, political and collective responsibility, and lately the concept of corporate responsibility has become a frequent issue. The methodology used in this paper is review, analysis and interpretation of the bioethics literature, as well as literature considering the issue of corporate social responsibility. The purpose of research is to define and survey the particularities of these issues and to point out that the concept of corporate social responsibility has its strongholds in bioethics. The final result of this paper is to define the above-mentioned bioethical strongholds in corporate social responsibility, while the conclusion is that the concept of corporate social responsibility can find its main strongholds, as well as future perspectives, in bioethics.

  • Issue Year: 18/2009
  • Issue No: 102+103
  • Page Range: 807-823
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Croatian