The Morality of Transparency; Clarity versus Emptiness
(2019) p.37-62- Abstract
- With transparency being either a state of clarity or the exposure emptiness, this paper focuses on the practices of transparency, termed ‘transparenting’. Focus on transparenting practices can provide a better tool for understanding the ‘rise of transparency’, and its moral, practical and political aspects. Three types of transparenting are defined: the voluntary transparenting conducted by organizations, the “flashlight” transparenting of suspicious outsiders, and renegade transparenting by the whistleblower. Examples are given from the field of anti-corruption programs and business ethics and compliance. Through a focus on transparenting, we can better understand both the risks and dark sides of transparency.
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- author
- Sampson, Steven LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2019
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Social Anthropology, Transparency, corruption, anti-corruption, Business ethics, Compliance, transparenting, organizational transparency
- host publication
- Der Transparenz-Imperativ: Normen, Strukturen, Praktiken
- editor
- August, Vincent and Osrecki, Franz
- pages
- 37 - 62
- publisher
- Springer
- ISBN
- 978-3-658-22294-9
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- additional info
- Accepted draft manuscript. Final publication in press.
- id
- 4b7200f8-4642-4b92-a7a0-14f87daf16e9
- date added to LUP
- 2019-06-03 20:01:30
- date last changed
- 2020-01-08 15:43:47
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