Accountability in Enterprise Mashup Services

Box 1

Accountability for performance.

Accountability refers to the obligation a person, group, or organization assumes for the

execution of authority and/or the fulfillment of responsibility. This obligation includes the following:

 (i) answering—providing an explanation or justification—for the execution of that

 authority and/or fulfillment of that responsibility,

 (ii) reporting on the results of that execution and/or fulfillment, and

 (iii) assuming liability for those results.