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Record Nr.

UNINA9910270935703321

Autore

Pellé Sophie

Titolo

Business, innovation and responsibility / / Sophie Pellé

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England ; ; Hoboken, New Jersey : , : iSTE : , : Wiley, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-119-34111-6

1-119-34105-1

1-119-34107-8

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations

Collana

Cognitive Science Series: Responsible Research and Innovation Set ; ; 7

THEi Wiley ebooks

Disciplina

658.408

Soggetti

Social responsibility of business

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Responsibility in business and enterprise -- Justifications for corporate responsibility -- Innovations and responsibility -- Responsibility as virtue in innovation.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Responsibility in business and enterprise -- Justifications for corporate responsibility -- Innovations and responsibility -- Responsibility as virtue in innovation.

Sommario/riassunto

Responsible Innovation.  For some, this expression is only an oxymoron or, worse, a means of masking with a sheet of virtue economic practices that would otherwise appear selfish and self-interested. For others, theorists and actors of innovation, this expression represents a formidable lever of action and a rich conceptual source from which to draw new ways of innovating. The articulation between different levels of norms – economic and ethical, to which we can add the legal dimension – is not new, and is the subject of an in-depth reflection, decades old, around the idea of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). By taking up some debates on CSR, most of which are foreign to the current authors of responsible innovation, this book examines the various justifications that CSR brings in order to convince economic players, subject to powerful market forces, of their responsible commitment. But these are not enough. The book also explores the specific contribution of the concept of responsible innovation to coping



with the technological, social and political breakthroughs generated by innovation, and is based on philosophical resources such as the ethics of virtue and the ethics of “care”.