ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses a broad survey of the concept of 'global responsibility' and provides the concept of responsibility into three dimensions: action responsibility, order responsibility and discourse responsibility. It shows how corporations and managers can act in these fields. The chapter presents some arguments against those who criticize corporations' new task assignment. It deals with some reflections concerning the relationship of morality and profit. The chapter argues that managers should regard the creation and opening-up of new markets–which is their order responsibility–as a genuine management task, for which they are paid by their shareholders. Corporations are regarded as being responsible for their actions and for the immediate consequences of these actions. In order to meet the discourse responsibility, corporations must develop or purchase the necessary competences. Equality of income and wealth are only possible in a stationary economy. A dynamic economy, by contrast, lives on differences.
