The Fragility of Responsibility Norway’s Transformative Agenda for Research, Innovation and Business

• Main Authors: De Grandis, Giovanni, Blanchard, Anne
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2024; Walter de Gruyter GmbH
• Edition: 1
• Series: De Gruyter Studies in Innovation and Entrepreneurship
• Subjects: Business and Management; Business innovation; Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR); Economics, Finance, Business and Management; KJMV6 Research and development management; Management and management techniques; Management of specific areas; Research Policy; Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI); Science and Society; Transdisciplinarity
• ISBN: 3111395537; 9783111399324; 3111397718; 9783111395531; 9783111397719; 311139932X
• ISSN: 2570-169X
• DOI: 10.1515/978311139771

Norway has a tradition in promoting Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) and Corporate social responsibility (CSR). This book consists of case studies of how social responsibility is institutionalized in Norwegian research, innovation and business, and theoretical contributions towards understa...

Table of Contents:

• Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- The authors -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Section 1: The emergence of responsibility -- Chapter 1 The institutionalization of social responsibility in Norwegian business and research: moral progress, moral decay, or both? -- Chapter 2 From value-freedom to responsible research and innovation? Post-normal and transdisciplinary pathways -- Chapter 3 Norwegian engagement with RRI and the propagation of RRI by the Research Council of Norway -- Section 2: Contexts of fragile responsibility -- Chapter 4 The elusive transformation of research and innovation. The overlooked complexities of value alignment and joint responsibility -- Chapter 5 Navigating tensions around RRI in higher education -- Chapter 6 Companies squeezed between autocratic and democratic regimes -- Section 3: Practices: fragile or robust? -- Chapter 7 Including societal actors in R&amp -- amp -- D - Different expectations, different responsibilities -- Chapter 8 Do you value responsible innovation? -- Chapter 9 Has law and social science trivialised the concept and practice of whistleblowing in Norway 2007-2023? -- Chapter 10 Acting on the Norwegian Transparency act: interpretation and implementation -- Conclusion A sea change in science and technology ecologies? Prospects of socially responsible research and innovation towards 2030 -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Index