Editing Radical transparency (section)

=== Radical corporate transparency===

Radical corporate transparency, as a philosophical concept, would involve removing all barriers to free and easy public access to corporate, political and personal (treating persons as corporations) information and the development of laws, rules, social [[connivance]] and processes that facilitate and protect such an outcome.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Bernardi |first1=Richard A. |last2=LaCross |first2=Catherine C. |url=http://www.nysscpa.org/cpajournal/2005/405/essentials/p34.htm |title=Corporate Transparency: Code of Ethics Disclosures |publisher=The CPA Journal |date=April 2005 |accessdate=December 25, 2011 |archive-date=January 9, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120109142615/http://www.nysscpa.org/cpajournal/2005/405/essentials/p34.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>

Using these methods to 'hold corporations accountable for the benefit of everyone' was emphasised in Tapscott and Ticoll's book "The Naked Corporation"<ref>Tapscott, D., & Ticoll, D. (2003). The naked corporation: How the age of transparency will revolutionize business. New York: Free Press.</ref> in 2003. Radical transparency has also been explained by Dan Goleman as a [[management]] approach where (ideally,) all decision making is carried out publicly.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.danielgoleman.info/books/ecological-intelligence/|title=Ecological Intelligence – Daniel Goleman|access-date=2023-12-15|archive-date=2023-06-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230607132338/https://www.danielgoleman.info/books/ecological-intelligence/|url-status=live}}</ref> Specific to this approach is the potential for new technologies to reveal the eco-impact of products bought to steer consumers to make informed decisions and companies to reform their business practices.

In traditional [[public relations]] management, [[damage control (news)|damage control]] involved the suppression of public information. But, as observed by [[Clive Thompson (journalist)|Clive Thompson]] in  ''[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]'', the [[Internet]] has created a force towards transparency:
"[H]ere's the interesting paradox: The reputation economy creates an incentive to be more open, not less. Since Internet commentary is inescapable, the only way to influence it is to be part of it. Being transparent, opening up, posting interesting material frequently and often is the only way to amass positive links to yourself and thus to directly influence your Googleable reputation. Putting out more evasion or PR puffery won't work, because people will either ignore it and not link to it – or worse, pick the spin apart and enshrine ''those'' criticisms high on your Google list of life."<ref>{{cite web |last=Thompson |first=Clive |url=https://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.04/wired40_ceo.html |title=The See-Through CEO |publisher=Wired |date=March 2007 |accessdate=December 25, 2011 |archive-date=December 28, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111228154712/http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.04/wired40_ceo.html |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Mark Zuckerberg]] has opined that "more transparency should make for a more tolerant society in which people eventually accept that everybody sometimes does bad or embarrassing things."<ref>{{cite news |last=Gould |first=Emily |url=http://www.newsweek.com/2010/06/12/faith-in-facebook.html |title=Faith in Facebook |publisher=Newsweek |date=June 12, 2010 |accessdate=December 25, 2011 |archive-date=January 23, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110123182224/http://www.newsweek.com/2010/06/12/faith-in-facebook.html |url-status=live }}</ref>