Editorial: Social Responsibility—Measures and Measurement Viewpoint

Matjaz Mulej, Anita Hrast, Zdenka Zenko
2013 Systemic Practice and Action Research  
Measurement provides information as a basis for requisitely holistically chosen measures. But: how can one measure the level of holism as the central concept of systemic behavior? How can one measure the level of the requisite holism and the level of interdependence among attributes of the feature under consideration, of the collection of inter-related viewpoints of consideration of it? A new chance is offered by the new international documents on social responsibility (SR; ISO 26000, etc.);
more » ... 26000 cites interdependence and holism as the common denominators of consideration of any of the seven topics, seven principles, and seven steps of procedure of introduction of SR as an instrument of promotion of systemic behavior. The collected articles address very different practices and actions. Conclusion from all of them may read: ways of attainment of systemic behavior by SR are very many and very diverse, and so is the measurement, once one does not oversimplify. This collection of articles by authors
doi:10.1007/s11213-013-9297-5 fatcat:3scofabrwncvzlhmku2ny7wdo4