TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ingley, Coral
AU  - Janning, Finn
AU  - Khlif, Wafa
TI  - The Illusion of Transparency in Corporate Governance
SN  - 9783030357795
PY  - 2020///
CY  - 
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - HF COMMERCE
KW  - Corporate Governance
KW  - Corporate Social Responsibility
KW  - Business ethics
N1  - Does Transparency Help or Hinder True Ethical Conduct?; 1.  Framing Transparency; 2. Transparency: A Moral Concept--; 3. Transparency Is (Full) Disclosure in Corporate Governance--; 4. Transparency a Paradoxical Proxy for Trust?--; 5. Transparency: A False Solution to a Real Problem--
N2  - Transparency is generally seen as a corporate priority and a central attribute for promoting business growth and social morality. From a philosophical perspective, society has experienced a gradual paradigm shift which intensified after the Second World War with the advent of the information era. As a fundamental part of an inescapable, hegemonic capitalist system and given the insistent emphasis on it as a moral imperative, transparency, this book avers, needs to be examined and challenged as to its true governance value in building a sustainable twenty-first century society. Rather than clinging to the fantasy of complete transparency as the only form of accountability, corporate governance is strengthened in this way by practicing true social responsibility, which emerges not from outward-looking compliance but from a deeper place in the corporate psyche through inward-looking contemplation and the development of moral maturity
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