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.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Der Transparenz-Imperativ: Normen, Strukturen, Praktiken |
| Editors | Vincent August, Franz Osrecki |
| Place of Publication | Wiesbaden |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Chapter | 2 |
| Pages | 37-62 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-3-658-22294-9 |
| Publication status | Published - 2019 |
Bibliographical note
Accepted draft manuscript. Final publication in press.Subject classification (UKÄ)
- Social Anthropology
Free keywords
- Social Anthropology
- Transparency
- corruption
- anti-corruption
- Business ethics
- Compliance
- transparenting
- organizational transparency