Fintech’s transparency-publicity nexus: Value co-creation through transparency discourses in business-to-business digital marketing

Bourne, Clea D.. 2020. Fintech’s transparency-publicity nexus: Value co-creation through transparency discourses in business-to-business digital marketing. American Behavioural Scientist, 64(11), pp. 1607-1626. ISSN ‎0002-7642 [Article]

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Abstract or Description

This article engages with the critical study of contemporary publicity by examining transparency as a strategic project to platformize financial services. The article contributes to understandings of transparency as value co-creation in business-to-business (B2B) markets. Through field-level discourse analysis, the article shows that transparency is contingent primarily on the nature of the market, in this case, a platformized industry, which valorizes transparency as part of a regime of data-sharing and open access. Transparency is further contingent on the market actor: actors with lesser status and market legitimacy are more likely to seek to co-create transparency with market actors of greater or similar status and legitimacy. The article concludes that in commercial spaces, publicity’s relationship to transparency is not only determined by market logic, but that all market logics are being drawn further toward a technological definition of transparency as “shareveillance,” as more segments of economic life become platformized.

Item Type:

Article

Identification Number (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764220959385

Keywords:

B2B content, digital marketing, discourse, fintech, transparency, value co-creation

Departments, Centres and Research Units:

Media, Communications and Cultural Studies

Dates:

DateEvent
26 August 2020Accepted
1 October 2020Published Online
October 2020Published

Item ID:

29202

Date Deposited:

05 Oct 2020 09:53

Last Modified:

16 Nov 2020 12:51

Peer Reviewed:

Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.

URI:

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/29202

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