Is Transparency the Best Disinfectant

By Amitai Etzioni. 2016

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

1. Mikkel Flyverbom
2. C. Stohl
3. Michael Stohl
4. Adrian Weller
5. Paul M. Leonardi
6. Nicole B. Ellison
7. Ann Majchrzak
8. Ivano Cardinale

Citations in the corpus

• Challenges for Transparency (2017, background): “Much of this focuses on the benefits of transparency but some earlier work, notably in economics and social science, also considers drawbacks of transparency and accountability (Lerner and Tetlock, 1999; Prat, 2005; Etzioni, 2010; Peled, 2011; Bernstein, 2014).”
• Transparency: Motivations and Challenges (2017, background): “cuses on the benefits of transparency but some earlier work, notably in economics and social science, also considers drawbacks of transparency and accountability (Lerner and Tetlock, 1999; Prat, 2005; Etzioni, 2010; Peled, 2011; Bernstein, 2014). We discuss related work throughout the text. 2. Types ”
• Transparency: Motivations and Challenges (2019, background): “Much of this focuses on the benefits of transparency but some earlier work, notably in economics and social science, also considers drawbacks of transparency and accountability [40, 53, 19, 51, 9].”
• The Management of Visibilities in the Digital Age: Introduction (2016, background): “That is, this approach challenges the prevalent focus on of the role of information disclosure in both close-knit and more distant social relations (Etzioni, 2010) and the potentials of “sunlight” to work as a “disinfectant” (Brandeis, 1913).”
• Effects of Transparency on the Perceived Trustworthiness of a Government Organization: Evidence from an Online Experiment (2014, unknown): “On the other hand, there are scholars who emphasize the negative effects of transparency (e.g., Bovens 2003; Etzioni 2010; O’Neill 2002, 2006).”