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Transparency, Information and Communication Technology
Social Responsibility and Accountability in Business and Education
Antonino Vaccaro, Hugo Horta, and Peter Madsen, Editors
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
- 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 978-1-889680-60-6 ·
Projected date of publication September 2008 · Softbound ·
350 pages (est) · Institutions $55, Individuals
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