Secrecy and communication: towards a research agenda

Fan, Ziyun; Costas, Jana; Grey, Christopher

doi:10.1108/ccij-08-2017-0076

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“…Being certified as “needing to know” involves access to otherwise concealed knowledge. This example, which equally applies to participants in unofficial meetings or “non-meetings” mentioned previously, illustrates an inherent paradox at the core of secrecy: though insiders might be told that the secret is not to be revealed and are trusted to keep the secret, they are themselves being told the hidden information (Bellman, 1981; Fan and Dawson, 2022; Fan et al, 2017). Such a double frame is embedded in the practices of secrecy as it is communicatively organized and yet protected from communication.…”

Section: Secrecy Transparency and The Nexus Between Themmentioning

confidence: 90%

The dialogic performativity of secrecy and transparency

Fan

Christensen

2023

Human Relations

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How does the pursuit of transparency and insight tend to produce secrecy and vice versa? In popular and political discourse, secrecy and transparency are usually depicted as mutually exclusive practices. At the same time, we know from extant research that the two are closely related, that they each have performative effects, and tend to encroach on each other. The inseparability and performative dynamics between the two, however, remains to be unfolded. This critical essay revisits the secrecy-transparency relationship through the lens of Edgar Morin’s dialogical principle. From this perspective, we argue that secrecy-transparency dialogics perform as a complex whole, involving both complementary and antagonistic forces. As an illustration of dialogic performativity, we draw on the phenomenon and practice of ‘open meetings’ in public sector organizations. Specifically, we argue that the ambiguous fascination with knowing and not knowing create conditions for simulated insight and self-imposed conformity in ways that recalibrate the relationship between transparency and secrecy. On this background, we call for renewed critical and reflexive engagement with the transparency ideal and its presumed antipode, secrecy.

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Section: Secrecy Transparency and The Nexus Between Themmentioning

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The dialogic performativity of secrecy and transparency

Fan

Christensen

2023

Human Relations

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“…Selanjutnya, Azman et al (2008) menilai SGBP dalam sebuah cawangan syarikat perkhidmatan pos dan kurir di Sarawak dan mendapati SGBP dapat meningkatkan keadilan prosedur dan prestasi kerja, serta impak SGBP terhadap prestasi kerja adalah dipengaruhi secara tidak langsung oleh keadilan prosedur. Sungguhpun kajian empirikal di atas memberikan maklumat asas yang sangat berguna dalam konteks organisasi kajian, tetapi peranan keadilan interaksi dalam mempengaruhi kesan SGBP terhadap komitmen organisasi diabaikan dalam kajian lepas (Azman et al 2008 (Fan et al 2017). Kebanyakan kajian terkini membuktikan bahawa kebolehan pengurus mengamalkan komunikasi terbuka secara teratur (seperti, maklumat yang jelas, tepat dan jujur) dan komunikasi berahsia dengan tujuan murni (seperti, tidak menyalahgunakan maklumat peribadi pekerja, tidak mendedahkan butiran ganjaran kepada semua pekerja dan tidak mencari cara-cara menutup kelemahan dalam isu-isu yang berkaitan ekuiti) dalam mengurus SGBP akan dapat menimbulkan perasaan keadilan interaksi dalam diri pekerja.…”

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Perhubungan di antara Komunikasi tentang Ganjaran Berasaskan Prestasi, Keadilan Interaksi dan Komitmen Organisasi

Razak

Ismail

Ali

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Tujuan kajian ini dijalankan adalah untuk menilai peranan keadilan interaksi sebagai pemboleh ubah pengantara dalam perhubungan di antara komunikasi tentang ganjaran berasaskan prestasi dan komitmen organisasi. Kaedah kaji selidik telah digunakan untuk mengumpul data daripada 310 pekerja di organisasi perkhidmatan pos dan kurir terbesar di Semenanjung Malaysia. Partial Least Square Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) telah digunakan dalam menganalisis data. Keputusan kajian menunjukkan dua dapatan penting: pertama, perhubungan di antara komunikasi terbuka, keadilan interaksi dan komitmen organisasi adalah signifikan. Kedua, perhubungan di antara komunikasi berahsia, keadilan interaksi dan komitmen organisasi adalah signifikan. Dapatan kajian ini telah mengesahkan bahawa kesan komunikasi tentang ganjaran berasaskan prestasi ke atas komitmen organisasi adalah dipengaruhi secara tidak langsung oleh keadilan interaksi. Dapatan kajian ini juga dapat memberi gambaran yang lebih jelas kepada para pengurus bahawa komunikasi tentang pengurusan ganjaran berasaskan prestasi adalah strategi yang sangat penting perlu digunakan untuk meningkatkan komitmen pekerja terhadap organisasi. Seterusnya, kajian ini menghuraikan perbincangan, implikasi dan kesimpulan. Kata kunci: komunikasi terbuka, komunikasi berahsia, ganjaran berasaskan prestasi; keadilan interaksi; komitmen organisasi.

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“…OECD, 2015). For a firm or research organisation secrecy is a part of their organisational communication, internally and with other organisations (Costas & Grey, 2014;Fan, Costas, & Grey, 2017;Hilgartner, 2012).…”

Section: Appropriation Mechanismsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Trade Secrets in Collaborative Research Agreements Between Universities and Industry

Lie¹,

Egelie²

2019

SSRN Journal

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We review the agreements of 483 collaborative research projects between universities and industry. We find that only a subset, 52 of the agreements, allows for the use of trade secrets and lead time advantage, the preferred appropriation mechanisms by industry. We explore this gap by first reviewing the literature on appropriation mechanisms. We explain trade secrets and how lead time advantage is a confused and composite concept. In the empirical part, we use cross-tabulations to study the characteristics of the projects in the subset. We connect how appropriation mechanisms work, with academic secrecy and the theory of incomplete contracts. We conclude with propositions for managers and policymakers on the use of trade secrets in collaborative research.

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Secrecy and communication: towards a research agenda

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The dialogic performativity of secrecy and transparency

The dialogic performativity of secrecy and transparency

Perhubungan di antara Komunikasi tentang Ganjaran Berasaskan Prestasi, Keadilan Interaksi dan Komitmen Organisasi

Trade Secrets in Collaborative Research Agreements Between Universities and Industry

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