Search for dissertations about: "Responsibility"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 886 swedish dissertations containing the word Responsibility.

  1. 11. Minimal Optimism : Reading P. F. Strawson on Responsibility

    Author : Anton Emilsson; Praktisk filosofi; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; P. F. Strawson; responsibility; free will; scepticism; naturalism; free will scepticism; Compatibilism; philosophical methodology; pragmatic genealogy; blame;

    Abstract : Peter Strawson’s ‘Freedom and Resentment’ (1962) has reoriented the way moral philosophers think about responsibility. There is a general sense that Strawson’s approach holds the promise that we may move beyond the traditional discussion of free will in recognition of the fact that whether determinism is true is irrelevant for whether we are responsible beings. READ MORE

  2. 12. Organising Corporate Social Responsibility : The Case of Employee Involvement at Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

    Author : Tina Sendlhofer; Susanne Sweet; Daniel Tolstoy; Udo Zander; Arno Kourula; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Corporate social responsibility CSR ; small and medium-sized enterprises SMEs ; employees; organising;

    Abstract : Businesses often refer to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) when asked about their responsibilities toward society. In this view, CSR includes social, environmental, and economic responsibilities, of which the latter is prevalently prioritised. READ MORE

  3. 13. Moral responsibility in traffic safety and public health

    Author : Jessica Nihlén Fahlquist; KTH; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; moral responsibility; responsibility ascriptions; traffic safety; public health; pateranlism; privacy; road traffic suicides; Philosophy subjects; Filosofiämnen;

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  4. 14. Shifting Responsibilities and Shifting Terrains : State Responsibility, Corporate Social Responsibility and Indigenous Claims

    Author : Rebecca Lawrence; Barbara Hobson; Andrew Barry; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Indigenous rights; Corporate Social Responsibility; resource conflicts; welfare services; forestry; finance; windpower; internal colonisation; market rationalities; Sociology; Sociologi; Sociology; sociologi;

    Abstract : Using case studies from Australia, Sweden and Finland, and also drawing on examples from parts of Asia, including Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, and Thailand, the thesis explores how state and market actors respond to Indigenous claims and how Indigenous claims are themselves reconstituted through those particular responses. While the duty of protecting Indigenous rights might nominally fall upon the state, we are increasingly witness to the enfolding of market actors and market rationalities in debates concerning Indigenous claims. READ MORE

  5. 15. Corporate Human Rights Responsibility : A Continuous Quest for an Effective Regulatory Framework

    Author : Patricia Rinwigati Waagstein; Maja Kirilova Eriksson; Pär Hallström; Per Sevastik; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; International Law; Corporate Social Responsibility; Business; Human Rights; Economic; social and Cultural Rights; Multinational Transnational Corporation; International law; Folkrätt; Private International Law; Internationell privaträtt;

    Abstract : This study is build by a premise that there is a need to include regulatory approach in the discourse of business and human rights particularly of economic, social, and cultural rights which often neglected. The study is not expecting to produce exhausted set of rules which can directly or effectively applicable to all global corporation nor a set of global treaty which can cover the whole aspects of corporation and human rights. READ MORE