Browsing by Subject "Transparency"

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Beschreibung von 24 Nachhaltigkeitspreisen in Deutschland mit Relevanz für Unternehmen der Ernährungsbranche
(2016) Gebhardt, Beate
Sustainability awards are an exclusive instrument of sustainability communication. They are significant limited - mainly quantitative. Not everyone can get such a price. Often only a few, mostly one, wins a contest.Interest in sustainability prices grows. This interest express companies, the potential winners,and show the donors of awards, the awarding institutions. In the last yearsmore and more sustainability competitions in Germanyare founded.Meanwhile, companies in the food industry can participatein 24 competitions with 82 categories (as of 2013). It is a dynamic market of sustainability awards - with lots of potential, but also some challenges. Independence and transparency of procurement become important elements of awards’ concepts. In this report, 24 sustainability competitions and their categories are featured in factsheets. This include the relevant competitions directlyaimed at companies in the food industry or be open for those.The approach to identify them isdescribed. In addition, the evaluation scheme of transparency of sustainability competitions is explained. Key results are described.
Zum Begriff der Transparenz : politikbezogene Vorstellungen, kognitive Bezüge und medial vermittelte Bilder
(2015) Zipfel, Theodor; Brettschneider, Frank
Transparency is a very frequently used term but it is also a volatile one. Frequently, the semantic content and conceptual imagination of the figurative meaning of the word in linguistic usage is kept relatively vague. This paper thus pursues the objective of contributing towards establishing the understanding of the term transparency. To this end, the linguistic and epistemological bases of analysing a term were first explained and the theoretical and methodical basis for the study was elaborated. Based on this, lexical information on the conveyed meaning of the word transparency was analysed. This analysis formed the basis for a qualitative analysis of the content of specialised texts from politics, where it was possible to demonstrate that the content of the term by its definition is far more complex than presented in dictionaries; that more than anything else, subject-related and object-related references of notions of the term need to be differentiated. In addition, the manifold dimensions of usage of the politics related term of transparency were defined and the functional meaning transparency adopts in the political system was presented. The results of the qualitative study subsequently served as a starting point for a quantitative analysis of newspaper articles. The result was that more than a few conveyed the concepts of specialist texts in the newspapers. Yet, that is precisely where there are restrictions to the presentation, where the contents of terms become more abstract.