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Corporate and Governmental Social Irresponsibility - The Sewol Ferry Disaster in the Light of Addictive Organization Theory

Kang, Su-Dol 1

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ABSTRACT

The Sewol ferry disaster of April 2014 in South Korea that took the lives of as many as 304 people should be understood as a result of structural contradiction, in which the socioeconomic problems accumulated in the process of economic growth for more than the last 50 years were compressively expressed, and not as just a simple traffic accident or conspiracy. The present study systematically explains the structural contradictions involved in the causes of the Sewol ferry disaster and the ex post facto response processes, from the viewpoint of addictive organization theory. Consequently, this study emphasizes that for Korean corporations or the government to fulfill their social responsibility, a system shift should be achieved eventually to clearly recognize the process of addiction in the organization process and to fundamentally heal corporate and government organizations, instead of providing partial, temporary, superficial, and ad hoc prescriptions.

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