The solution adopted at the London Radium Institute was to set up a complex hierarchical structure of tasks and responsibilities aimed at reducing the impact of the institution on the private practice of referring doctors.
Although institutional organization and clinical responsibility aim to provide a structured and safe environment to facilitate the treatment process and to help monitor patients, they can also unintentionally institutionalize patients.
Through continuous adaptations and a management with permanent presence and explicit responsiveness the team could finally develop a collective responsibility aiming to find the best possible solutions for their patients by utilizing all resources in the team effectively.
"There's a popular notion that documentaries can be funded by appropriately worthy organisations, and sometimes that can include a corporation with big corporate social responsibility aims, but [even they] may not allow the independence that one would want".
(In 1986, the State of California actually set up a Task Force to Promote Self-Esteem and Personal and Social Responsibility, aimed at combatting drug abuse, welfare dependency, and other conditions presumably fostered by low self-esteem. It didn't work very well, nor did other, similar programs.
One teacher explained that "Most of the sexual harassment training was viewed as a 'human resource' responsibility, aimed at adults in the workplace and not as a problem that students experience".
But charity can create dependency relationships whereas social responsibility aims at social justice, understood as developing sustainable relationships based on mutual respect.
The United States has a responsibility to aim higher.
According to the decision makers, having the business responsibility, the aim is to realise the most profitable solutions and the business group and application development must cooperate efficiently.
Analysts say the focus on social responsibility is aimed at deflecting possible criticism from being associated with China's more controversial environmental and human rights policies.
