{
  "title": "Disclosing a conflict of interest: what transparency does not guarantee",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/declarer-un-conflit-d-interets-ce-que-la-transparence-ne-garantit-pas-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2025-01-19",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "Making an interest visible does not necessarily neutralise its influence. Research suggests distinguishing between informing decision-makers and effectively protecting the decision process.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Decision-making",
  "place": {
    "name": "Sion",
    "region": "Valais",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "Daylian M."
    },
    {
      "heading": "An interest can also shift what seems fair",
      "point": "Linda Babcock and George Loewenstein (1997, Journal of Economic Perspectives) review research on self-serving judgements of fairness and bargaining impasses."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The premature conclusion",
      "point": "It would be excessive to conclude that conflicts of interest should remain undisclosed."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What the evidence cannot promise",
      "point": "An experimental advice task does not reproduce public procurement, clinical [decision-making](/formation-prise-de-decision-sion) or industrial investment."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Sion",
      "point": "Within SHR’s “Decision-making” programme, an exercise applicable in Sion would track documented decisions over one month, whether they concern a hydropower contractor, healthcare equipment, a viticulture supplier or an alpine tourism partnership."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Moore",
      "year": "2005",
      "source": "The Journal of Legal Studies"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Loewenstein",
      "year": "1997",
      "source": "Journal of Economic Perspectives"
    }
  ],
  "wordCount": 391,
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  "relatedPages": {
    "programme": "https://www.shr.swiss/formation-prise-de-decision-sion",
    "city": "https://www.shr.swiss/formations-ville/sion",
    "blog": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog"
  },
  "citationPolicy": "Citation autorisée avec mention « SHR — Swiss Human Resources » et lien vers l'article."
}