Consumer Insurance Fraud/Abuse as Co-creation and Co-responsibility: A New Paradigm |
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Authors: | William C Lesch Johannes Brinkmann |
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Institution: | (1) School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha, WI 53141, USA;(2) Decision and Information Technologies Department, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA |
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Abstract: | B2B online reverse auctions technology (ORAs) emerged as a popular tool for large buying firms in the late 1990s. However,
its growing use has been accompanied by a corresponding increase in unethical behaviors to a point that it has been described
as the technology that has triggered more ethical concerns in the e-commerce arena than in any other segment of activity.
Our findings first indicate that the establishment of formal ethical criteria based on the restrictive interpretation of ethics
as honesty is not enough to resolve the ethical issues that surround the introduction of a technology because it ignores the
ethical values shared by most actors in the sector in terms of fairness. We show the extent to which lobbying, rumor, technical
problems, and public discourse can impact on the interpretations of the technology regarding ethics. Highlighting the importance
of incorporating ORAs into the broader context of relationship management that integrates ethics as fairness and not only
ethics as honesty serves to illustrate why the future of ORAs might not be as bright as predicted by a theoretical interpretation
of the technology that is sometimes disconnected from the realities of the field. |
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