Albu, O. B., and Flyverbom, M. (2019)
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Please insert questions regarding the text below. Remember to add an acronym with the first two letters of your first and family name respectively in brackets to your question (e.g., "HaMa" for "Hans Mayr").
- In the text it is written “[transparency] is often used to advance particular ideological or political agendas” (p.280). The question now is: Is it important or even possible to control transparency and if yes, which ways are there to control it? (EsRö)
- How can governments (and organizations in general) balance the need for secrecy (in terms of data protection, privacy and security matters) and the societal demand for transparency? According to the principal-agent-theory, people behave differently if they are observed. To which extent can transparency enhance positive behaviour in governments? (SaWa)
- how much transparency can a complex social entity like a company tolerate? (MaSc)
- Would I ask this question in a less/more transparent setting? (LuNa)
- Will transparency lead to increasing buerocratism for companies? (AnBa)
- How would you explain that transparency is related to enhance positive behaviour in governments? (MaDa)
- "From more process-oriented perspectives, transparency has potentially negative consequences" (p.280) What are those consequences and how do organizations deal with them? (ThVo)
- The text states: "Transparency projects come to shape organizations and their members."(p. 19) How exactly do transparency projects shape organizations and their members? (DeEg)
- With regard to possible outcomes of transparency, the text takes into consideration that “global measures for increasing information flows and eliminating corruption may be biased toward a largely Western business-oriented viewpoint that acts to underpin the neoliberal extension of business-friendly market capitalism throughout the world.” (p. 279) Isn’t it possible that exactly the opposite might be the case? (JoBr)
- Is transparency in terms of verifiability approaches only positive, or can transparency be an economic disadvantage or is transparency of different importance depending on the organization (donor organizations)? (AnAu)
- What are implications on personal and interpersonal level when organizations disclosure all informations? (AnPa)
- Do big organizations lose competitive advantages through transparency? Or is this just a manipulation that they maintain to be transparent? (TjSc)
- How much transparency is our society able to endure? Is it too much to break laws like Edward Snowden, did it? (MaSt)
- Some large corporations propagate that transparency is very important in their business. What influence would real transparency have (according to the conditions for achieving transparency p. 273) in the concern of "Volkswagen" on the diesel affair? (ChTr)
- Is transparency like CSR not only just a marketing must have these days and more controlled than honest and open? (CaSt)
- As relevance is important for transparency in the first conception of transparency: How can one assess which information is relvant for disclosure? Is this not a contradiction in itsself? (ElSt)
- Does a very transparent state automatically mean more peace and prosperity? (JuHö)
- The positive consequences of transparency are known. Should it be always a goal to guarantee high transparency or could that even endager the success of a state/company? (ThAi)
- What are your arguments why transparency is understood as a matter of quality and quantity of information? (AnBe)
- Isn’t transparency increasing the commitment to an organization? (SaFi)
- Is full transparency even possible if organizations can choose what information they make transparent? Can keeping silent about specific informations also be assumed as intransparency? (MiZö)
- What does prevent organizations from being transparent? (SiVe)
- How far can the idea of transparency be implemented in supranational institutions? (ToVo)
- Which components of transparency contribute the most to overall trust and to each component of trust in organizations? (KlMa)
