Corruption or Nineteen Eighty-Four?

Authors

  • Barbara Czarniawska GRI, School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.58235/sjpa.v19i3.15592

Keywords:

Corruption, Availability cascade, Risk management, Societal trust, Transparency

Abstract

This paper is based on my recent assignment as a participant on an independent investigation commission, whose three members – a political scientist, a law scholar, and a management scholar (me) – were given the task of scrutinizing the activities of Gothenburg City Council, City Government, city administration, and municipal companies, in light of the 2010 "corruption scandal" in the city. The work of the commission, its results and their reception form a basis for the discussion of complexity of recent transparency requirements.

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Author Biography

Barbara Czarniawska, GRI, School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg

Barbara Czarniawska is Torsten&Ragnar Söderberg Professor of Management Studies at GRI, School of Business, Economics and Law at University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She takes a feminist and processual perspective on organizing, recently exploring connections between popular culture and practice of management, and robotization of work processes. She is interested in in techniques of fieldwork and in the application of narratology to organization studies. Recent books in English: Cyberfactories (2012), Coping with Excess (ed. with Orvar Löfgren, 2013) and Social Science Research From Field to Desk (2014).

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Published

2015-09-15

How to Cite

Czarniawska, B. (2015). Corruption or Nineteen Eighty-Four?. Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration, 19(3), 3–19. https://doi.org/10.58235/sjpa.v19i3.15592

Issue

Vol. 19 No. 3 (2015)

Section

Original Articles

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