" The book's analysis primarily hangs on a "power" framework in considering the relationship between corportation and stakeholders, and the subsequent need for transparency. The fundamental argument of this book is "that transparency is required wherever power is exercised. And wherever power is abused transparency is doubly necessary.""
- The Issue Barometer

Henriques (business professional, college teacher; The Triple Bottom Line: Does It All Add Up?, 2004) argues that the exercise of power by any institution demands a concomitant commitment to transparency and accountability. Covering the philosophical and historical to contemporary practices, the book's 14 chapters explore the nature and character of transparency and the ways in which transparency has become a global condition of organizational acceptability. For Henriques it is the inherent dichotomy between transparency and the often-disparate interests of the stockholders, government regulators, boards of directors, and internal and external stakeholders that create a dilemma. Today's challenge, as he sees it, is to develop a balance between the public's right to know what organizations do and the tradition of organizational privacy. Topics include commercial confidentiality, intellectual property rights, privacy rights, the public's right to know, lobbying, and corporate corruption. Excellent global real-life examples and vignettes complement the presentation. Although oriented toward the business professional, this work is a timely, useful addition to comprehensive leadership studies collections. Summing Up: Recommended. General readers; students, upper-division undergraduate and up; professionals.
- Choice

“We are entitled to know what companies do. Transparency will increasingly be a condition of the acceptability of the corporate sector which today influences individual lives, communities and countries across the globe as never before. This important book examines the scope and limits of transparency, intelligently confronting the challenges and problems it poses. Its basic argument–that transparency is required wherever power is exercised–is relevant not only to companies, but to governments and, as their influence grows, to non-governmental organisations as well. It makes valuable reading for all.”
- Sir Geoffrey Chandler CBE, Founder-Chair, Amnesty International UK Business Group 1991-2001, and former Director of Shell International

"Transparency is a precondition of effective accountability, and [Henriques] provides a timely and compelling account of the state of corporate transparency today."
- Jonathan Porritt, author of Capitalism as if the World Matters

“This book is a timely exploration of what ‘transparency’ entails, the basis for expecting it of companies, and the limits which may apply to adopting it….a welcome contribution both to contemporary debate and to the practical challenges which must be addressed by the creators of wealth.”
- David Nussbaum , CEO of Transparency International

“Corporate transparency is crucial because, with all their power, companies have a mind of their own. Henriques points out that the ‘psychology’ of companies means that unless people within companies can be honest with themselves, real transparency may be unattainable.”

- Oliver James , author of Affluenza and Britain on the Couch