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Sandra Marmy
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PublicationRe-Setting the Stage for Privacy : A Multi-Layered Privacy Interaction Framework and Its Application(Stämpfli, 2014)
;Aeschlimann, Lea Sophie ;Harasgama, Rehana ;Tamò, AureliaThis book chapter develops a mulit-layered privacy interaction framework to account for the social embeddedness of online privacy. Drawing on Urie Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory, we analyze informational privacy on the Internet on four layers: the micro-system, the exo-system, the meso-system and the macro-system. The micro-system encompasses the individual and its psychological decisions; the exo-system relates to Internet companies and organizations; the meso-system describes cultural and temporal aspects; and the macro-system deals with legal and regulatory questions. Privacy on each layer is first analyzed independently and then as a series of interactions between the different layers. Each interaction is illustrated with a current example. The chapter concludes with a range of theoretical and practical implications. It is one of the first attempts to conceptualize online privacy as a multi-level and multi-dimensional phenomenon.Type: book sectionVolume: 1Issue: 9 -
PublicationVon vermenschlichten Maschinen und maschinisierten Menschen: Bemerkungen zur Wortsemantik in der Robotik(Stämpfli Verlag AG, 2014)
;Harasgama, Rehana ;Schister, RomanTamò, AureliaType: book section -
PublicationPrivacy Concerns and Online Behavior - Not so Paradoxical After All? : Viewing the Privacy Paradox through Different Theoretical LensesThis contribution provides a new avenue to the privacy paradox - the divergence between attitudes and behavior when it comes to online privacy. Our approach rests on research in online trust and on the theory of public value as well as Tönnies' duality of "Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft". We show with representative data from 2012 that the very providers of Internet and mobile services - web companies and telecommunication providers - enjoy very low levels of trust in terms of privacy protection. Even before the PRISM scandal Swiss people distrusted these organizations. By contrast, financial institutions, the public service, and government enjoy high levels of (data protection) trust. We find that the privacy paradox in Switzerland is a trust problem rather than a concern problem. Implications for theory and practice are derived.
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PublicationCompliance and its effectiveness in preventing unethical behavior: Analysis of the Siemens Business Conduct GuidelinesIn the course of globalization the sovereignty of the nation state and its democratically legitimated institutions are eroded. The economy does not develop under territorial regulatory frameworks anymore but rather defines the still residual latitude of the state. Multinational companies find themselves in a new political economic double role that implies ethical conflicts and poses big challenges for multinational companies. Over the course of the last decades various corporate scandals were caused by unethical behavior by people acting within or on behalf of a corporation. The consequences of such scandals included serious damage to the concerned companies. As a reaction to the increasing risk of scandals many companies implemented compliance-based ethics programs. To what extent such programs can provide ethical and legal business activities varies in practice. It can be assumed that the ethical dimension in particular is missed out because the discourse is dominated by a legal approach to the expanse of ethical considerations. This assumption is tested by analyzing the Business Conduct Guidelines of the company Siemens which is famous for its ethical program and has been used for best practice by other companies.
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PublicationVirtuelle Generalversammlung – Zulässigkeit, Chancen und Risiken einer Modernisierung(Stämpfli, 2013)
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PublicationWhy the "Tone at the Top" Matters : Best Practices for Boards of Directors of Multinational Corporations(Stämpfli, 2013)
;Schister, RomanTamò, AureliaThe "tone at the top" is widely recognised as a central pillar of high-quality corporate governance. As the company's "integrity DNA" it can have a significant impact on every aspect of a company's business. It is argued that the tone at the top has a pervasive effect on the reliability of the financial reporting processes, the quality of earnings, as well as operating performance, since all components of an organisation's control system are affected. In addition, an organisation's tone at the top directly influences its public perception and reputation. A positive attitude of the board of directors towards a constructive tone at the top might thus lead to the best long-term interests of the company.