Miriam Rodríguez Pallares

Decisión y transparencia en información y conocimiento. Estudio de caso de las empresas de comunicación cotizadas españolas

Introduction. Strategic management requires making decisions whose implicit risk can be reduced by making information and knowledge accessible. Thus, strategic management contributes to the transparency of companies. Based on this premise, the objective of this work is to analyse the contents aimed at shareholders and investors within the websites of five listed media companies operating in Spain -as an example of external transparency- in order to identify content and knowledge management models, if any, and determine the correlations that exist between transparency, decision-making and strategic management. Methods. The study is based on the examination of case studies through content analysis and non-participant observation. Results and conclusions. The results indicate that the sample of companies under study are transparent towards their external stakeholders, in economic-financial terms, which reflects the existence of a good corporate content management and favourable conditions for strategic or long-term management. In addition, the study has confirmed that, in terms of transparency, the sample of media companies are not different from listed companies operating in other sectors.