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The effect of transparency on a three-cycle model of manipulative discourse

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Saeed Almaroof R. A.

Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies

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2017

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vol. 16

EN

It is assumed that manipulative discourse can carry various types of messages on the continuum of sincerity, such as: truth, persuasion (argumentation), deception and manipulation. These different intended meanings can cause variations within the ‘transparency factor’. The transparency factor is controlled by specific social and pragmatic factors. Generally speaking, manipulative discourse is far away from transparency because it entails the use of implicit strategies and processes to achieve a final goal. The highly transparent type of discourse is the testimony where the speaker’s intention is to present truth that is supported by explicit strategies and processes. Within this continuum, there is the persuasion where the speaker’s intention is to convince the addressee without exerting any power upon the receiver. Other types, such as coercion and deception, may show a lower degree of transparency because they are used to mislead the hearer with or without the use of the social effect such as ‘power’. Accordingly, a theoretical framework which treats manipulation as a three-cycle of the meaning-making process is proposed. It is assumed that this model helps in classifying manipulative texts into different types based on the transparency factors. The aim of this study is to provide a theoretical framework that can be adopted by researchers to analyze types of discourse in terms of transparency taking into consideration the speaker, the text itself and the hearer. All these factors in the three-cycle model help in shaping the degree of transparency that a text may show.

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Inside the Polish media firms: Accountability and transparency in the newsrooms

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Głowacki M.

Środkowoeuropejskie Studia Polityczne

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2016

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issue 2

91-105

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Although the majority of mechanisms and instruments which aim to support media ethics and journalistic professionalization in Poland were introduced at an early stage of political and social transformation in the 1990s, media accountability is still in the making. The moderate level of journalistic professionalization might be explained by the weakness of existing self regulatory mechanisms (codes of journalistic conduct, The Council of Media Ethics), divisions within journalistic communities (left wing-oriented vs. right-wing politically oriented) and the growing economic pressure. Bearing in mind that decision-making processes, supportive management as well as organizational structures and cultures might have an impact on journalistic behaviour and the understanding of roles and journalistic quality, this paper will go a long way in explaining the state of media accountability and transparency from the perspective of newsrooms. Referencing to the outcomes of empirical international research project “Media Accountability and Transparency in Europe (MediaAcT)” (2010–2013) the study will provide evidence similarities and differences in the perception of tools and existing practices by journalists from different types of media and job positions.

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Assessment of the transparency of the functioning of the Church Fund in Poland in terms of granting it

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Bernaciński Ł.

Acta Iuris Stetinensis

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2021

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vol. 34

9-25

EN

This paper attempts to assess the transparency of the Church Fund’s operations in the area of awarding grants for the maintenance and renovation of historic sacred buildings and for supporting socially useful ecclesiastical activities. For this purpose, the author has outlined the procedure for awarding grants from the Church Fund by the Minister of the Interior and Administration. The author has also presented the practice of secretly increasing the budget of the Church Fund during the financial year, as observed in recent years, and the problem of not publishing decisions on awarding grants insofar as they concerned the distribution of funds from the said increase in the Fund’s budget. Basic measures have been proposed to potentially contribute to increasing the transparency of the granting procedure and to build citizens’ trust in the State. The area related to the financing of the Church Fund should be considered as non-transparent. On the other hand, the transparency of the grant award procedure is given credit for it is transparent, albeit apparently quite complicated, and is communicated to applicants in a comprehensible manner. When presenting the said procedure and assessing the functioning of the Church Fund in this respect, the author analyses and interprets the current provisions of the constitutional, statutory and sub-statutory rank laws in force applicable to the subject matter. Incidentally, elements of the historical overview of applicable laws are also used.

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Body Modification as the Right of Body in the light of Cosmopolitanism – Appiah’s perspective

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Jedlikowska D.

Prosopon. Europejskie Studia Społeczno-Humanistyczne

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2014

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issue 3(9)

43-57

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The assumption of the paper is a liquidity between sacrum and profanum.. The work done on the body makes bodily practices and rituals the art of body. The body is an altar of our identity, manifestation of Self. The great visibility of this tendency is illustrated in the frame of popular culture, especially in the stream called the culture of transparency. The examples of body modifications’ practices, referred to the Western culture, are recognized as the contemporary new-primitivism (neo-primitive perspective) – the Modern Primitive Movement. The wide cult of the body is commonly known and practiced and its official name is corporeism. There are a various platforms of trainings to relax and strengthen the body, “the work on our body” in lighter form, express body. Probably the most opposite trends and cultural phenomenon can verify our level of tolerance and ability to understand significantly other people. The case of body modification can be the first one. The reason of it can be that the body can be perceived as the most visible open-text of ourselves. A variety of its manifestations can really provoke a huge cosmopolitan debate towards a more aesthetically-directed approach on those forms of practices which are not met too often in one specific culture and which argue with its standard of normality.

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Fair Value in Financial Statements of Bulgarian Enterprises

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Moneva I. B.

Politeja : Pismo Wydziału Studiów Miedzynarodowych i Politycznych Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego

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2012

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issue 2.3(20.3)

109-114

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The author undertakes an important issue relating to axiology of activities (individual and collective) incorporated in the Bulgarian financial and economic practice. Moneva points to phenomena which favour corruption and reinforce patterns of illegal conduct and practices distant from what has been recognized in liberal democracies of the West as correct and recommended. Lack of clarity and transparency of power, lack of public oversight over state institutions support persistence of pathological and destructive practices. The article constitutes an important voice in defence of democratic values.

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Segmentability and Transparency in English Latinate Prefixation

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Haładewicz-Grzelak M.

Academic Journal of Modern Philology

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2015

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vol. 4

51-63

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English suffixes have been the object of sustained inquiry across most phonological schools and paradigms, e.g. Chomsky‒Halle’s SPE, Lexical Phonology, Distributed Phonology (see, e.g. Booij 2005; Scheer 2011; Chornogor 2007; Rakić 2007; Carr 1993, for overviews and a sample discussion). In the current article I assume a ‘panchronic’ view (cf. Pociechina 2009) of selected issues implicated in English Latinate prefixation ({con-} and {ex-}) and I propose interpreting the apparent contrarieties in their productivity and phonological behavior as a canonical case of segmentability (cf. Bynon [1977] 1996; Nagano 2007).

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IS IT WORTH REVEALING MORE? CENTRAL BANKS’ TRANSPARENCY AND ITS MEASUREMENT

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Szyszko M.

Bezpieczny Bank

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2016

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issue 4 (65)

7-26

EN

This paper focuses on monetary policy transparency. Central banks’ practice in the field of communication, especially while signalling their intentions, is not reflected in most known transparency measures. The following paper presents a comparison of the best-known transparency indices and offers an extension to them that focuses on the forward-lookingness of the central bank. A more elaborate approach to signalling intentions is not covered by transparency measures developed in the pre-crisis period. Thus the purpose of this paper is methodological: developing extended transparency measures. Additionally, the application of these extensions is presented. The empirical part of the research covers the Czech Republic and Poland.

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Legal regulation of the principle of transparency in the budgetary process of the Republic of Poland

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Yankevich S.

Adam Mickiewicz University Law Review

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2013

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vol. 2

215-226

PL

The article describes the organizational and legal foundation of the principle of budget transparency in Poland. The study considers the legal basis for access to information about the activities of public authorities and the legal foundation of the principle of transparency of the budgetary process in the Republic of Poland. The main instruments for achievement of transparency of all operations with public funds such as budget classification, the cash servicing of budget implementation, budget accounting and reporting are analysed. While attempting to describe the aforementioned matters, the author proposes a definition of the term “budget transparency”.

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Dostęp do informacji publicznej jako prawne narzędzie zwalczania korupcji. (Glosa do wyroku Naczelnego Sądu Administracyjnego z dnia 3 stycznia 2012 r., sygn. akt: I OSK 2157/11)

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Wielki R.

Opolskie Studia Administracyjno-Prawne

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2017

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vol. 15

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issue 3

115-123

PL

This article is a voice of approval of the decision of the Supreme Administrative Court of 3 January 2012, Ref. Act: I OSK 2157/11. The ruling refers to the scope of public information that is available to the interested party. The court pointed out that public information could be invoices for services performed by private entities on behalf of public administrations. This ruling is part of anti-corruption strategies, based on transparency of the public life, and also supports the well-established case law, which treats public information very broadly. This results in an increase in the potential of the proactive investigation focused on cooperation with the community in the fight against corruption.

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Transparent Contents and Trivial Inferences

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Sambrotta M.

Studia Semiotyczne

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2019

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vol. 33

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issue 1

PL

A possible way out to Kripke’s Puzzle About Belief could start from the rejection of the notion of epistemic transparency. Epistemic transparency seems, indeed, irremediably incompatible with an externalist conception of mental content. However, Brandom’s inferentialism could be considered a version of externalism that allows, at least in some cases, to save the principle of transparency. Appealing to a normative account of the content of our beliefs, from the inferentialist’s standpoint, it is possible to state that a content is transparent when name-components of that content are a priori associated with some application conditions and, at the same time, reflection alone provides an a priori access to those application conditions, with no need of any empirical investigation. Nevertheless, such requirements are only met in trivial cases. The aim of this paper is to argue that some application conditions of that sort, albeit trivial, can be ontologically ampliative. As a result, the related contents can be regarded as transparent in a substantial and rich way.

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The quality of non-financial information in the perspective of data disclosure

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Adamczyk J.

Prace Naukowe Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego we Wrocławiu

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2019

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issue vol. 63, nr 10

147-160

EN

Information is a source of knowledge in enterprise management, therefore its importance increases in today’s competitive environment. High-quality and timely information reduces uncertainty and risk of decision-making, hence the great interest of stakeholders in access to information. The purpose of the article is to interpret the concept of the quality, as it relates to non-financial information, and to assess the quality of the information in terms of enterprise data disclosure. The object of research is the quality of non-financial information disclosed in corporate social reports, which depends on many factors, e.g. the choice of reporting standard and the type of business. The research shows that GRI Standards covers the broadest and most detailed range of non-financial information. Assessment of the reports demonstrates that the quality of non-financial information is also affected by the application of additional industry standards, which take into account the specificity of the enterprise.

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Znaczenie informacji wzrasta z powodu rosnącej konkurencji, w której informacja jest źródłem wiedzy w zarządzaniu przedsiębiorstwem. Dobra jakościowo informacja, uzyskana we właściwym czasie zmniejsza niepewność i ryzyko decyzji. Wynika z tego duże zainteresowanie interesariuszy dostępem do informacji. Cele artykułu stanowią interpretacja pojęcia jakości w odniesieniu do informacji niefinansowych oraz ocena ich jakości w kontekście jawności danych przedsiębiorstw. Obiektem badań jest jakość informacji niefinansowych ujawnianych w raportach społecznych przedsiębiorstw. Jakość informacji ujawnianych przez przedsiębiorstwa zależy od wielu czynników, m.in. od wyboru standardu raportowania oraz od rodzaju prowadzonej działalności. Z przeprowadzonych badań wynika, że GRI Standards obejmuje najszerszy i najbardziej szczegółowy zakres informacji niefinansowych. Ocena raportów pozwala stwierdzić, że na jakość informacji niefinansowych wpływa również stosowanie dodatkowych branżowych norm uwzględniających specyfikę przedsiębiorstwa.

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Assessing potentials of journalists’ blogs as an instrument of media accountability in Estonia

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Harro-Loit H., Lang J., Himma-Kadakas M.

Central European Journal of Communication

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2012

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vol. 5

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issue 2(9)

243-258

EN

A distinction should be made between institutional media accountability and journalistic accountability. The latter individualizes the accountability of media organizations and enables the public to see the individual journalist (with his own ideas, sense of moral values) instead of a homogeneous mass that fits into the corporate journalistic system. This paper focuses on the possibilities accomplished by journalists’ blogs: are these new instruments of accountability that enable individual journalists to highlight their personal moral sensitivity and open their information processing practices to the public? Do Estonian journalists have enough incentives and autonomy to use weblogs as an opportunity to explain their professional decisions or even openly confront the editorial opinion? The analysis draws on 11 qualitative interviews conducted with Estonian journalists and editors. The findings indicate that the fading interest in weblogs is not the main reason why personal blogs of professional journalists would not function as accountability instruments. Journalists seldom describe attitudes that would characterize the “socially responsible existentialist.”

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Communication as ethical facilitator

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Pomilio F.

Academicus. International Scientific Journal

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2012

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issue 06

12-19

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The purpose of the article is to offer a reflection on the ethical aspect of communication, more from a practised, experienced perspective than according to abstract models characterised by theoretical regulation and definition. Specifically, through references to the crisis of confidence that is currently sweeping Europe, it will attempt to show how communication can constitute a natural place for training and cooperative construction of new values and principles of ethical and moral regulation across the various fields of social activity, from the world of enterprise to that of institutions.

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Transparency and Translatability of the Terminological Metaphor in the Domain of Computer Science (A Contrastive Analysis)

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Butiurca D.

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica

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2014

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vol. 6

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issue 3

381-389

EN

Our research, Transparency and translatability of the terminological metaphor in the domain of the internet, is a contrastive analysis in the topic of the metaphor, especially. The relationship between the common and the special lexicon in the domain of the Internet in the English language as source language, the relationship between the common denominator between the source language and the semantic basis, of equivalence in the target language represent the aims of the research. The languages in which the analysis is carried out are different from the genealogical and typological point of view (the English language on the one hand, the Romance language and Hungarian on the other). The perspective is a descriptive-semasiological one, and the methods applied - the paradigmatic and syntagmatic analysis, the contrastive analysis - are adapted to this perspective. The transparency in the meaning, the degree of translatability, the motivated character of the terminological metaphor, the role of linguistics / of semantics in the terminology of the Internet are only some of the conclusions of the research.

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Kultura metodologiczna i raportowanie badań empirycznych publikowanych w wiodących czasopismach poświęconych zagadnieniom edukacji

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Pasikowski S.

Kultura i Edukacja

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2014

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issue 2(102)

103-133

EN

The article provides a methodological review of research reports published in the main Polish journals of education. The query encompass the papers published in the seven journals from 2008 to 2011. Ones of the properties which have been observed are: research strategy, research question and hypothesis, type of sampling, size of sample, method of data collection and data analysis, and include type of statistical analysis. The results show that reports where quantitative strategy was used are overrepresented. In many cases generalization of research results has been done by authors. Moreover, this generalization was independent from type of sampling, research strategy and design. There was not differences in the scope of report transparency. The analysis also points out the diversity of research strategy due to affiliation of authors and overrepresentation of authors from two universities.

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Pro-active media accountability? — an Austrian perspective

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Bichler K., Kraus D., Karmasin M.

Central European Journal of Communication

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2013

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vol. 6

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issue 1(10)

5-15

EN

Th e article analyzes media accountability instruments in Austria and how far they are designed to allow transparent, pro-active and participative operations. Firstly, the authors will have a look at traditional media accountability instruments and examine how they act, what their defi cits are and to what extent they include audiences. Secondly, web-based accountability processes will be ana- lyzed, focusing on their participation possibilities and on the problem of reactivity. Th irdly, the state of the art and the chances of online transparency of news production will be discussed. Next to a practice check, the implementation of such tools will be discussed. Th e authors argue that transparency on all these levels is an important, yet undervalued principle to media accountability. Th e analysis will be completed with recent data from the Austrian part of a comparative study on media accountability done in the context of the EU-funded RP7-framework research project MediaAcT.

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Users’ perception of media accountability

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Groenhart H.

Central European Journal of Communication

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2012

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vol. 5

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issue 2(9)

190-203

EN

Theoretically, the public is engaged in the accountability process, mainly in two ways: it conceives an image of professional quality and it may call journalism to account. Therefore, this study explores the meaning and functionality of media accountability from a users’ perspective: How do news media users perceive media accountability in relation to journalistic quality? Focus group analysis highlights how the mechanism of quality deduction strengthens the link between perceived media accountability and journalistic quality. Supporting the normative-economic rationale, this study identifies media accountability as a quality assessment tool, a quality trade mark and as journalistic value on its own. However, threshold perception clearly discourages news users to engage in accountability processes. It is suggested that news media may benefit from an accessible but proportional media accountability infrastructure.

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Znaczenie Biuletynu Informacji Publicznej w zapewnieniu jawności działań administracji publicznej na przykładzie zamówień publicznych

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Mika A.

Prawo

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2017

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issue 323

277-287

EN

Public Information Bulletin (BIP) has a great influence on direct access to public information. Its importance is bigger and bigger in Public Procurement Law nowadays. Publications in BIP are currently required in cases of in house-procurement and public contracts for social and other specific services. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the impact of BIP on transparency of public administration activities in public procurement area, especially the impact of the lack of publication in BIP on validity of contracts.

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Between IT and societal shift: Preconditions of open strategizing

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Kozarkiewicz A.

Nauki o Zarządzaniu

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2018

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issue vol. 23 no. 4

3-8

EN

The main aim of this paper is to indicate and analyse the primary conditions needed to implement the concept of open strategizing into the practice of an organization, as well as to make it successful. The structure of the paper comprises two main parts: a brief introduction to the most important issues of open strategy is followed by the results of own research. Two major approaches towards the notion of open strategy are delineated: the first is more oriented towards strategy content and based on the idea of comprising collaborative initiatives into a firm’s strategic plans, and the second refers to strategic management process, based on including external and internal actors (stakeholders) into strategizing processes. Within own research based on literature review and the re-reading of case materials, four categories of preconditions of open strategizing are revealed. These categories, described and illustrated by examples, comprise: level and quality of social IT implementation, open culture and leadership, capabilities and competences, as well as the perceived expected benefits from inclusion and transparency.

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Jakość polityki informacyjnej polskich spółek giełdowych w świetle badań

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Ignyś A.

Studia Prawno-Ekonomiczne

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2014

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vol. XCI (91)/2

143-154

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The article focuses on the issue of information policy. On the basis of empirical research conducted on a full sample of companies listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange it examines the extent to which Polish stock companies comply with principles of best practice regarding disclosure. Out of the 21 principles relevant to the subject, only three are often not complied to.

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