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The Notion of Accountability in the Global Community

The author was a Chair/Discussant of the Session in which she presented the following papers: 1. "Confession and the Protestant Reformation: The Foundation for Modern Accountability? (author: S. Velayutham) ; 2. "Ideology and Grammar of Idealism: The Caterpillar Controversy Revisited" (author: P. Armstrong) and 3. "Auditing Bloom, Editing Joyce: Accounting and Accountability in Ulysses" (authors: K.Warnock, G. Warnock). She envisioned this presentation as a plea for dialogue between the corporate sector and the community of researchers. Why do we need dialogue? The processes of globalisation require us to be aware of new realities, i.e. to live and work under turbulent and complex circumstances in which economic interests increasingly dominate the political agendas throughout the world. Among analysts, there is agreement that the liberalization of markets and the privatization of enterprises are processes that have strengthened the power of the multinational corporations and international financial institutions. There is no doubt that the corporate world poses a new and difficult test for modern democracy at the turn of the millennium, particularly regarding the fundamental currents of Western civilization, and this is accountability toward human life. A key question arises: In whose name is globalisation being discussed - in the name of the controller or the controlled? In this manner, two fundamental positions confront each other - those who invoke the right to manage with a challenge of social audit and corporate social responsibility.

Accountability; global community; researchers; corporate sector.

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