This article aims to present current and potential uses of innovative social research methodologies which harness emergent technologies. This article also seeks to note ethical…
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Purpose
This article aims to present current and potential uses of innovative social research methodologies which harness emergent technologies. This article also seeks to note ethical issues surrounding emergent technologies.
Design/methodology/approach
Specifically, the use of social networking sites (SNS) such as Facebook as well as their applications will be explored. The use of iPhones as data gathering devices will also be explored as an example of the utility of ubiquitous technologies to ethnographic work.
Findings
This paper finds that emergent technologically‐mediated ethnographic methods are of potential value to organizational ethnographers and that methodological barriers can be overcome to best leverage new media technologies in organizational ethnography.
Research limitations/implications
This article has not been designed as a comprehensive overview of these social research methods nor as a primer to implement them. Rather, the main purpose of it is to begin to explore their potential applications to organizational research and to raise awareness amongst organizational researchers.
Originality/value
This article is original in its review of emergent digital research methods for qualitative organizational research. It reviews newer technologies and presents cases from the literature to highlight the varied methodological approaches implemented by organizational and other researchers in the field.
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Johanna Sumiala, Katja Valaskivi, Minttu Tikka and Jukka Huhtamäki
Johanna Sumiala, Katja Valaskivi, Minttu Tikka and Jukka Huhtamäki
The analysis in Chapter 5 argues that Alt Tech platforms should not be considered alternatives in the sense of offering new socio-technological paradigms, but rather as political…
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The analysis in Chapter 5 argues that Alt Tech platforms should not be considered alternatives in the sense of offering new socio-technological paradigms, but rather as political alternatives which have emerged in reaction to the mainstream platforms' governance models, particularly regarding hate speech regulation. This distinction is crucial for understanding the role of Alt Tech platforms in the digital discourse on freedom, equality and security.
This chapter outlines the connection between mainstream platforms and the emergence of Alt Tech, focusing on the phenomena of a ‘platform for all’ and deplatforming, which are more about increasing security measures than ideological stances. It challenges the perception of Alt Tech as mere alternatives, drawing on Foucault's governmentality and Arendt's notions of freedom and politics. The discussion extends to how Alt Tech platforms redefine freedom of expression, promote a form of universal equality that overlooks hate speech regulation and place the onus of ‘trust and safety’ on users, contrasting sharply with mainstream approaches. By examining these platforms' governance and agendas, particularly through the case study of Christian Freedom in Gab, this chapter reveals how Alt Tech significantly contributes to broadening the debate on hate speech, freedom and equality in the digital realm, as active participants in shaping these discussions.
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Nilaya Murthy and Santosh Gopalkrishnan
The banking sector requires a major comeback with the series of bank frauds that has shook the nation. The rising non-performing assets (NPAs) and corporate frauds find their…
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Purpose
The banking sector requires a major comeback with the series of bank frauds that has shook the nation. The rising non-performing assets (NPAs) and corporate frauds find their roots in the top-level management or executive levels. The purpose of this study to analyse the behavioural component with corporate governance lapses for creating a trail and to what extent it can contribute to forensic analysis to help reduce and prevent fraud in the future.
Design/methodology/approach
This study is investigative in nature. This study uses case study approach by taking into account the major Advance–NPA–Fraud cases over period of 2010–2022. RBI data for bank advances, NPAs and advances-relate frauds from 2005 to 2019 were studies and interpreted for creating a trend and pattern for the reduction and prevention of frauds.
Findings
The authors found that behavioural factors and personalities affect the systems and culture of the company, thereby giving a jolt to the corporate governance mechanisms along with various entities like depositors, consumers and shareholders.
Practical implications
Assessing the behavioural aspects for risk mitigation remains unexplored in the banking sector. The personality dimension can help in contributing to comprehending the mental aspects and the reasons behind the combination of dark triads with economic offences.
Originality/value
This study is beneficial to all the beneficiaries of the banking sector and the economy at large in understanding the implications of risks because of patterns formed by emotions and vulnerability towards economic and fugitive economic crimes.