This paper brings into focus the concept of organizational secrecy by senior managers in the context of a major strategic change program. Underpinned by legitimation theory and utilizing a narrative methodology and a longitudinal investigation, we draw upon data from 52 interviews with 13 senior...

Die Cell-Key-Methode ist ein hauptsächlich für die Geheimhaltung von Fallzahltabellen entwickeltes Geheimhaltungsverfahren. In den Forschungsdatenzentren der Statistischen Ämter des Bundes und der Länder werden häufig umfangreiche Analysen vorgenommen, auf deren Ergebnisdarstellung sich das...

Die Forschungsdatenzentren der Statistischen Ämter des Bundes und der Länder führen für ausgewählte Statistiken die Cell-Key-Methode als neues Verfahren zur Ergebnisgeheimhaltung ein. Dieses Verfahren schützt die Befragten vor der Reidentifikation, indem es durch die Überlagerung der...

Seit dem Berichtsmonat Januar 2022 tauschen die nationalen Statistikämter der EU-Mitgliedstaaten untereinander Mikrodaten zu den innereuropäischen Warenexporten aus. Dabei wurde erstmals in der Geschichte des Europäischen Statistischen Systems ein Mikrodatenaustausch zwischen den...

Die Forschungsdatenzentren der Statistischen Ämter des Bundes und der Länder füh- ren für ausgewählte Statistiken die Cell-Key-Methode als neues Verfahren zur Ergeb- nisgeheimhaltung ein. Dieses Verfahren schützt die Befragten vor der Reidentifikation, indem es durch die Überlagerung der...

Die Cell-Key-Methode ist ein hauptsächlich für die Geheimhaltung von Fallzahltabel- len entwickeltes Geheimhaltungsverfahren. In den Forschungsdatenzentren der Sta- tistischen Ämter des Bundes und der Länder werden häufig umfangreiche Analysen vorgenommen, auf deren Ergebnisdarstellung sich...

Seit dem Berichtsmonat Januar 2022 tauschen die nationalen Statistikämter der EU- Mitgliedstaaten untereinander Mikrodaten zu den innereuropäischen Warenexporten aus. Dabei wurde erstmals in der Geschichte des Europäischen Statistischen Systems ein Mikrodatenaustausch zwischen den...

Eine Möglichkeit, die Statistikproduktion zu modernisieren, besteht in der Standardisierung und Optimierung der Prozesse: Die Reproduzierbarkeit von Methoden, Prozessen und Werkzeugen sorgt für verbesserte Qualität, Transparenz und Wirtschaftlichkeit. Die Bereitstellung einer zentralen,...

Eine Möglichkeit, die Statistikproduktion zu modernisieren, besteht in der Standardisierung und Optimierung der Prozesse: Die Reproduzierbarkeit von Methoden, Prozessen und Werkzeugen sorgt für verbesserte Qualität, Transparenz und Wirtschaftlichkeit. Die Bereitstellung einer zentralen,...

The legal momentum toward pay transparency is widespread and fast-moving. Since 2010, over a dozen states have passed laws prohibiting employers from telling workers they may not talk about wages. Proponents see these and related transparency laws as crucial steps to combat sex- and race-based...

Purpose With pay transparency (PT) as an emerging trend in organizations around the world and the European Union promoting open pay regulations, PT is of increasing interest to scientists, managers and policymakers. However, it is still unclear what people think about PT and what theoretical...

This paper introduces a notion of partial secrecy in bilateral contracting games between one upstream firm and several competing downstream firms. The supplier’s offer quantities are subject to trembles, and each downstream firm observes a noisy signal about the offer received by its...

1. Book Reference Terms, Definitions and Cases -- 2. Why Business Secrets is or should be a concern for companies? -- 3. Confidential Information as Business Secret -- 4. Business Secrets increase asset value -- 5. Protecting Business Secrets to improve value creation -- 6. Contractual...

Stock price synchronicity has been associated with various market outcomes like the return-sentiment relations, stock liquidity, and asset pricing models. Therefore, researchers have devoted a lot of time in revealing the underlying factors that drive stock price synchronicity. Using a sample of...

We examine how societal secrecy affects the underpricing of initial public offerings (IPOs). Using a large sample of 18,304 IPOs across 38 countries, we find robust evidence that IPO underpricing is positively related to societal secrecy. Additional analyses reveal that investor protection,...

Excessive financial secrecy facilitates illicit financial flows, which constitute a major developmental challenge for low-income economies and cause significant tax revenue losses for governments around the world. In this paper we estimate the semi-elasticity of cross-border financial assets to...

Stock price synchronicity has been associated with various market outcomes like the return-sentiment relations, stock liquidity, and asset pricing models. Therefore, researchers have devoted a lot of time in revealing the underlying factors that drive stock price synchronicity. Using a sample of...

Firms rely on patenting and trade secrecy to protect their intellectual property. We study how changes in the trade-off between patenting and secrecy affect firms' stock liquidity and financing outcomes. We show that an international trade agreement (TRIPS) that strengthened patent protection...

This paper studies how pay transparency affects organizations that reward employees based on their efforts (i.e., using "subjective performance evaluation"). First, we show that transparency triggers social comparisons that require the organization to pay its employees an "envy premium". This...

This paper studies how pay transparency affects organizations that reward employees based on their efforts (i.e., using "subjective performance evaluation"). First, we show that transparency triggers social comparisons that require the organization to pay its employees an "envy premium". This...

This paper investigates the drivers and inhibitors of Internet privacy concern. Applying the Multidimensional Development Theory to the online environment, we identify the important factors under four dimensions - i.e., environmental, individual, information management, and interaction...

Despite substantial differences in monetary policy and communication strategies, many central banks share the practice of purdah, a self-imposed guideline of abstaining from communication around policy meetings or other important events. This practice is remarkable, as it seems to contradict the...

We study worker and firm behavior in an environment where worker effort could depend on co-workers' wages. Theoretically, we show that an increase in workers' 'concerns' with co-workers' wages should lead profit-maximizing firms to compress wages under quite general conditions. However, firms...

This paper investigates the drivers and inhibitors of Internet privacy concern. Applying the Multidimensional Development Theory to the online environment, we identify the important factors under four dimensions — i.e., environmental, individual, information management, and interaction...

We analyze how the legal enforceability of noncompete agreements (NCAs) affects labor markets. Using newly-constructed panel data, we find that higher NCA enforceability diminishes workers' earnings and job mobility, with larger effects among workers most likely to sign NCAs. These effects are...

The idea behind the establishment of European Works Councils (EWCs) is that these are bodies which should be informed and consulted on company decisions and actions. However, this flow of information is often disrupted by confidentiality constraints imposed by management. Three central research...

We challenge a claim commonly made by industry and government representatives and echoed by legal scholarship: that algorithmic decision-making processes are better kept opaque or secret because otherwise decision-subjects will “game the system”, leading to inaccurate or unfair results. We...

We study whether regulators should reveal the models they use to stress test banks. In our setting, revealing leads to gaming, but not revealing can induce banks to under-invest in socially desirable assets for fear of failing the test. We show that although the regulator can solve this...

Previous research have opposed secrecy and openness as mutually exclusive processes. In this paper, we suggest a more nuanced approach to secrecy in open innovation, drawing from Philosophy and Sociology. We have conducted a two-year research program in the defense industry, collecting data on...

The idea behind the establishment of European Works Councils (EWCs) is that these are bodies which should be informed and consulted on company decisions and actions. However, this flow of information is often disrupted by confidentiality constraints imposed by management. Three central research...

The idea behind the establishment of European Works Councils (EWCs) is that these are bodies which should be informed and consulted on company decisions and actions. However, this flow of information is often disrupted by confidentiality constraints imposed by management. Three central research...

Using a novel measure of own-investor secrecy, we find that non-disclosure to investors, unlike non-disclosure to public, does not signal hedge fund skill. Own-investor secretive funds do not significantly outperform transparent funds through an up market, and they significantly underperform...

We exploit one of the largest data leaks to date to study whether and how firms use secret offshore vehicles. From the leaked data, we identify 338 listed firms as users of secret offshore vehicles and document that these vehicles are used to finance corruption, avoid taxes, and expropriate...

To what extent does transparency in foreign policymaking matter to democratic publics? Scholars and policymakers posit a normative commitment to transparency in the conduct of foreign affairs, an assumption baked into many existing models of international politics. This paper tests the existence...