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as employees etc.) was still up-to-date rather than
obsolete and dangerous for humankind, such docu-
ments would not exist and be popular (Google
shows on the website 'social responsibility'
several millions of contributions.). Neither these
documents nor the concept of social responsibility
would be necessary. They basically require the
end of abuse of power of the owners/companies
over their subordinates/employees/co-workers,
business partners, broader society, and natural
preconditions of humankind's survival. Obviously,
the concept of sustainability is integrated into
the social responsibility. The latter is very much
integrated into criteria of the European Award
for Business excellence. There are also authors
viewing social responsibility as the humankind's
way to the world peace. Thus, social responsibility
reaches very far beyond charity to which it used
to be confined in the older perceptions, which are
still very much around and making sense, but only
as a small part of the concept.
The ancient Roman law's concept of ownership
is being innovated in line with the management's
concept of 'process owners' providing for the right
to use with no right to abuse one's property, if this
causes damage to people directly or via nature.
Its point is the humankind's survival.
On the other hand, if the monopolistic compa-
nies and societies' owners liked social responsibil-
ity and its revolutionary enlargement of 'process
owners' concept to all owners and humans, the
definition of social responsibility would, e.g. in
the European Union's document of 2001 not be
limited to companies and to their free will. Social
responsibility is namely said to include responsible
behavior beyond legislation, rather than being
included in law.
Thus, the need for social responsibility is
enormous, and so are obstacles to it. For the first
time in human history, the entire humankind,
rather than some local small groups of people,
is in danger of extinction. And for the first time
in history, owners are no longer permitted any
abuse, but must require from them-selves what
they require from their subordinates. Horizons
are growing broader.
Hopefully, the process of
innovation
of the
values, culture, ethics, and norms of the most in-
fluential part of humankind will not take too long.
On the other hand, the industrial period has
produced knowledge for humans to avoid the
briefly annotated problems, once the power-
holding owners of the world innovate their habits
from greed to needs only, reducing wants to real
needs. If USA e.g. invested the money in their
domestic production of solar and wind energy
instead of investing in the war for oil from the
Middle East, USA could export energy, along
with covering all their own needs for energy for
housing, production, transportation etc.
If the world power-owners agreed that the na-
tional and international law do not cover and solve
all humankind's problems, but a supra-national
world-wide law, constitution, and government is
also necessary, but limited to the most general
needs of humankind and made of honest and
holistic thinker and decision-makers rather than
bureaucrats, the current problems would also be
solvable.
In other words, the information about the
2008- crisis is an error with crucial consequences.
The 2008- crisis is no banking and real-estate
crisis only, but a deep crisis of the industrial
socio-economic concept that used to be very
helpful over three decades and has become very
detrimental over the recent decades. It is a crisis
of ownership/property being defined as the 'right
to use and abuse', which means that it is a crisis
of one-sided rather than holistic, or requisitely
holistic, at least, behavior (made of monitoring,
reflecting, thinking, emotional and spiritual life,
decision making, communication, and action). It
is a crisis of using so one-side measures of suc-
cess that people causing accidents and sending
people to hospital are statistically found more
beneficial to humankind than people producing
their own salad in their own garden with their own
seeds and buying nothing in the market. This one-
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