Quests for Transparency: Signs of a New Institutional Era in the Health Care Field

Quests for transparency are proliferating (Finkelstein 2000; Shah, Murphy and McIntosh 2003; Levay and Waks 2006). Pleas for the need for better transparency are found everywhere-in the introduction of new forms of corporate governance measures with advanced reporting, extended rule systems; in the enhanced concern across world society about corruption and the need to come to terms with it; in new forms of research policy and research financing; in all kinds of media coverage; and in architecture with the current trend of buildings with glass facades.