The Sustainable Socially Responsible Society: Well-Being Society 6.0

Simona Šarotar Žižek, Matjaž Mulej and Amna Potočnik
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Simona Šarotar Žižek: Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Maribor, SI-2000 Maribor, Slovenia
Matjaž Mulej: Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Maribor, SI-2000 Maribor, Slovenia
Amna Potočnik: Regional Development Agency Podravje, SI-2000 Maribor, Slovenia

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 16, 1-31

Abstract: The purpose of this study is to introduce Sustainable Socially Responsible Society 6.0 as a new concept that is supposed to extend ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’ to the entire society for humankind to gain a new chance to survive beyond the dangerous neoliberalism that abuses the market and democracy to the benefit of very few humans—the richest one percent and a few around them—and beyond Society 5.0. This study aims to define the framework conditions of ‘Well-being Society 6.0’, where humans can both achieve and define their targeted quality of life, including work–life balance, etc. Mulej’s Dialectical Systems Theory provides requisite (i.e., sufficient and necessary) integrity/holism of approach that leads to a Sustainable Socially Responsible (SSR) Society without overlooking the necessity of personal, including managerial, responsibility. Most humans try to satisfy their basic survival needs by management, which is requisitely holistic; it can and shall contribute to setting the framework conditions, foremost with non-technological innovation management. The Economy for the Common Good can contribute to SSR Society 6.0, including ‘Well-being society’. In addition, in 2019–2021 humankind is experiencing the ‘new Corona Virus’ crisis, killing millions, but also enabling a crucial step toward a well-being society by returning worldwide economic governance from neoliberalism to Keynes-based state capitalism with no loud objections.

Keywords: human; industry 4.0; society 5.0; sustainability; social responsibility; sustainable socially responsible society; well-being; ‘Well-being Society 6.0’; new coronavirus (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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