Vaccaro and Madsen- Eit 2009- Corporate Dyanmic Transparency the New Ict-Driven Ethics

Corporate dynamic transparency: the new ICT-driven ethics?

Guidance research

610033002 Bob Yen

Abstract

This paper identifies a new set of managerial practices based on the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) and particularly Internet-based tools. It is proposed that such dynamic information sharing, conducted by means of ICT, drives organizations to display greater openness and accountability, and more transparent operations, which benefit both the corporations and their constituents.

This paper demonstrates that dynamic transparency is more desirable and more effective than the more common ‘‘static transparency'' where firms' information disclosure is one-way, usually in response to government regulation.

This paper argues that the definition of corporate transparency should take into account the social modifications and transformations to stakeholder relationships afforded by ICTs.

It also introduces three ethical arguments for the implementation by corporations of dynamic transparency and describes some problems associated with its execution.

This paper organized as follow, first brief etymological note on transparency, second its definition and static practice in social science research. The third section provides a review of recent studies of initial indications of dynamic transparency in public policy, computer ethics and CSR. The fourth section describes dynamic transparency in more detail, fifth is describing three motivations and reasons for its adoption by businesses. The sixth section highlights some limitations associated with the adoption of dynamic transparency and the last section draws some conclusions and offers some perspectives for further research.

The definition of static transparency

It involves information dissemination