concurrently, organizations must respond effectively to social expectations and moral law and to achieve success in all areas and by respecting professional ethics adopt an appropriate procedure to achieve these expectations align with organizational goals to facilitates promotion of social accountability and realization of higher goals. in this study, we have formulated a framework by reviewin...

in the editorial published in this journal, daniels and colleagues argue that his and sabin’s accountability for reasonableness (a4r) framework should be used to handle ethical issues in the health technology assessment (hta)-process, especially concerning fairness. in contrast to this suggestion, it is argued that such an approach risks suffering from the irrrelevance or insufficiency they war...

The Social Construction of Accountability: Radiologists and Their Recordkeeping Practices Elizabeth Yakel Abstract Recordkeeping practices are a central means by which organizations demonstrate accountability. These practices, though, are socially constructed and owe as much to organizational or professional cultural and ethical norms as laws or procedural manuals. This paper discusses of accou...

this study examines the mediating role of sense of powerlessness on the relationship between the perception of accountability and citizenship participation among the students of university of tehran. lack of proper accountability can lead to a sense of powerlessness for students to influencing the processes and cause them no incentive to provide cooperation. accordingly, accountability variable...

The purpose of this paper is twofold. Firstly, it assesses the extent to which corporate reporting on ethical, social and environmental issues reflects corporate performance in ICI. This ‘reporting-performance’ gap is a key measure of the extent to which an organisation is accountable to its stakeholders. ICI’s disclosures concerning its ethical, social and environmental performance for the yea...

We consider a team production problem in which the principal observes only the team output and not individual effort. As is well known, inefficiencies may arise when each team member’s compensation is based only on his individual action, so that team members are not penalized or rewarded as a group, as is often the case in practice. We show that it is possible to overcome this problem by specif...

This study analyzed ethical and unethical behaviors in the Chinese public sector, and tested hypotheses concerning the main predictors of such behaviors, as well as other contingent factors related to organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) and unethical pro-organizational behavior (UPB). We investigated three specific issues. First, we examined whether ethical leadership and ethical environm...

Electronic health records, data sharing, big data, data mining, and secondary use are enabling exciting opportunities for improving health and healthcare while also exacerbating privacy concerns. Two court cases about selling prescription data, the Sorrell case in the U.S. and the Source case in the U.K., raise questions of what constitutes "privacy" and "public interest"; they present an oppor...