Transparency, Information and Communication Technology
Scandals and corruption in business, government, and education have a
corrosive effect on public trust and undermine public confidence in the most
important social institutions. There is no "silver bullet" that will prevent
corruption, fraud, or malfeasance, but transparency is acknowledged to be an
essential component in the responsible practices of corporations,
universities and governmental and non-governmental organizations.
This volume contains a selection of papers originally presented at the ICT,
Transparency and Social Responsibility conference held in November 2007, at
the School of Business and Economics of the Catholic University of Lisbon,
Portugal. It includes thoughtful discussion of many facets of transparency
and corporate responsibility, including the philosophical foundation of
transparency understood as an ethical virtue, the impact of information and
communication technologies on organizational transparency, the role of
transparency in organizational accountability, and the importance of
transparency in institutions of higher education. The conference was
organized by the new Center for Ethics, Business and Economics at the School
of Business and Economics of the Catholic University of Lisbon and by
Carnegie Mellon University.
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
Part I: TRANSPARENCY: PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS
John Elia, Transparency and the Right to Know
Ronnie Cohen & Janine S. Hiller, The Transparency Illusion
Gonçalo Jorge Morais da Costa & Mary Prior & Simon Rogerson, Will
the Evolution of ICT Ethics Engage Organizational Transparency?
Antonino Vaccaro & Peter Madsen, ICT and an NGO: Difficulties in
Attempting to be Extremely Transparent
Clara Saraiva & Patrícia Dias, Second Life: A Second Chance for
Transparency and Social Responsibility?
Matteo Turilli & Luciano Floridi, The Ethics of Information
Transparency
Part II: TRANSPARENCY AND CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
João César das Neves, Ethical Reasons for Ethical Behaviors
Silvia King & Christopher Miller, Transparency as the Nexus Between
CSR and Financial and Business Model Performance: A Lesson for
Management
Sáez-Morán Oscar & Gracia Navarro & Pablo Sáez, Towards a
Standardized Social Responsability Balance Sheet
Anna-Maria Schneider & Stefan Stieglitz & Christoph Lattemann,
Social Software as an Instrument of CSR
Gonçalo Paiva Dias & José Manuel Moreira, Transparency, Corruption
and ICT (Illustrated with Portuguese Cases)
Junwei Shi & Haiyan Fu, Being More Transparent? Evidence of
Corporate Information Disclosure from Transitional China
W. Michael Hoffman & Mark Rowe, Internal Ethical Communication and
Transparency: The Role of the Corporate Ethics Officer
Part III: TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN KNOWLEDGE SOCIETIES
Lewis Elton, University Governance – Unintended Consequences and
Ethical Concerns
Alberto Amaral & António Magalhães, Market Competition, Social
Accountability and Institutional Strategies
Hugo Horta & Antonino Vaccaro, ICT, Transparency and Proactivity:
Finding a Way for Higher Education Institutions to Regain Public Trust
David Shulenburger & Christine Keller & Peter McPherson,
Development of a Public Universities and Colleges Voluntary System of
Accountability for Undergraduate Education (VSASM)
Anna Pobol, Transparency of the High Education System in the
Transformation Economy of Belarus
Donna J. Wood & Adele Queiroz, Information vs. Knowledge:
Transparency and Social Responsibility Issues for Wikipedia
Bernd Klingsporn & Stefan Hornbostel, Scientific Authorship between
Social Capital and Ethical Commitment
Radhika Rajagopalan & Runa Sarkar, Ethics, Social Capital and a
Digital Ecosystem: A Case Review
· ISBN-13: 978-1-889680-60-6 · ISBN: 1-889680-60-5 · Paperback · 331 page, 21 contributions · Published August 2008 ·
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