Black and white transparency: Contradictions of a moral metaphor

Ethics and Information Technology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 155-162

  Menéndez Viso, Armando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Corporate social responsibility; Ethics; Information; Transparency; Visibility

Indexed keywords

COLLECTIVE PROPERTIES; CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES (CSR); ETHICS; INFORMATION; POLITICAL ACTIVITY;

INDUSTRY; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; VISIBILITY;

TRANSPARENCY;

EID: 67349251517     PISSN: 13881957     EISSN: 15728439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10676-009-9194-x     Document Type: Article

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