dc.contributor.author | NICOL, Olivia | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-12-06T13:55:39Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-12-06T13:55:39Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Journal of business ethics, 2018, Vol. 151, No. 1, pp. 101-114 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0167-4544 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1573-0697 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1814/59976 | |
dc.description | First online: 02 August 2016 | en |
dc.description.abstract | This article takes the 2008-2010 financial crisis as a case study to explore the tension between responsibility and accountability in complex crises. I analyze the patterns of attribution and assumption of responsibility of thirty-three bankers in Wall Street, interviewed from fall 2008 to summer 2010. First, I show that responsibility for complex failures cannot be easily attributed or assumed: responsibility becomes diluted within the collective. Actors can only assume collective responsibility, recognizing that they belong to an institution at fault. Second, I show that blaming is a social process that should be examined contextually, relationally, and dynamically. I build on sociological theories to depart from the normative focus of philosophers, and the cognitive focus of psychologists, who have dominated the study of responsibility so far. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | Axa Research Fund | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | Springer Verlag | en |
dc.relation.ispartof | Journal of business ethics | |
dc.subject | Attribution of responsibility | |
dc.subject | Assumption of responsibility | |
dc.subject | Accounts | |
dc.subject | Financial crisis | |
dc.subject | Corporate social irresponsibility | en |
dc.subject | Group entitativity | en |
dc.subject | Attribution | en |
dc.subject | Accounts | en |
dc.subject | Model | en |
dc.subject | Organization | en |
dc.subject | Failures | en |
dc.subject | Business | en |
dc.subject | Bankers | en |
dc.subject | Roles | en |
dc.title | No body to kick, no soul to damn : responsibility and accountability for the financial crisis (2007-2010) | |
dc.type | Article | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s10551-016-3279-3 | |
dc.identifier.volume | 151 | |
dc.identifier.startpage | 101 | |
dc.identifier.endpage | 114 | |
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