The concept of responsibility only makes sense in a situation of contingency. If there is no possibility of failure, there is no use of being responsible. Economic undertakings, however, are made by definition in situations of risk. The profit of an enterprise is to a certain extent the pay-off of risks it assumed. Responsibility, as the willingness to be answerable for the consequences of actions of oneself and of others, is therefore a basic economic principle that applies to any enterprise.

In this respect, the corporate social responsibility is only the extension of a basic economic principle. As companies have gained significant power in the course of globalisation, it would only be just and equitable also to enlarge their sphere of responsibility.

LARRGE promotes this process by stressing the need of companies to get a clear understanding of their spheres of influence, not only concerning their employees and supply chains, but also in regard to their influence on communities.

Taking responsibility for one’s own sources of surplus should become self-evident!