Collective responsibility

Collective responsibility assigns a group responsibility for actions or outcomes produced collectively. It concerns when responsibility belongs to a group, its members, or both.

Moral responsibility: The status of being answerable for actions or outcomes under moral standards. Collective responsibility asks whether moral answerability can belong to a group as well as individuals.
Group agency: The capacity of a group to form judgments, intentions, and actions as a unified agent. Group agency supplies one account of how responsibility can attach directly to a collective.
Methodological individualism: An approach that explains social phenomena through individuals, their actions, and their relations. It challenges explanations that treat a collective as an independent bearer of responsibility.
Corporate social responsibility: A company's responsibility for the social and environmental effects of its operations. It applies collective duties to companies whose decisions affect workers, communities, and ecosystems.
Individual responsibility: Responsibility assigned to a person for that person's actions or omissions. It contrasts group-level attribution with assigning blame or duties to particular members.
Shared intention: An intention held by multiple people in a way that coordinates their activity. Shared intentions can connect members' contributions to a common action and its consequences.
Group moral responsibility: Moral answerability attributed to a group as a group, rather than only to its members separately. This is the direct form of collective responsibility focused on moral blame or obligation.
Command responsibility: The legal responsibility of military commanders for crimes they knew or should have prevented or punished. It assigns responsibility within a hierarchy when subordinates commit collective or systematic wrongdoing.
Causal responsibility: Responsibility grounded in contributing causally to an event or outcome. Group outcomes can have many contributors, raising the question of how causal contribution supports responsibility.
Organizational decision-making: Procedures through which an organization forms and implements decisions. A decision procedure can make an outcome attributable to an organization, even when no member chose it alone.

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