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Sociological ambivalence in three Latin American corporate control institutions: Revisoria Fiscal --Colombia
The Revisoria Fiscal (Fiscal Audit), Comisaria (Statutory Examiner), and Sindicatura (Statutory Auditor) are institutions that exercise corporate oversight in order to preserve the general interest. In order to achieve their objective, these institutions must keep private and public interests balanc...
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Published in: | Cuadernos de administración (Cali, Colombia) Colombia), 2020-01, Vol.36 (66), p.132 |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Summary: | The Revisoria Fiscal (Fiscal Audit), Comisaria (Statutory Examiner), and Sindicatura (Statutory Auditor) are institutions that exercise corporate oversight in order to preserve the general interest. In order to achieve their objective, these institutions must keep private and public interests balanced. However, upholding these interests impartially can lead to contradictions because of the tensions each interest group generates. Thus, from the theoretical framework of sociological ambivalence, this paper understands the type of contradictions arising in the corporate control that the aforementioned institutions exercise. To account for the types of ambivalence, firstly, we identify the contradictions that have been recorded in academic papers, and then, based on oral accounts, these contradictions are analyzed. In both cases, qualitative content analysis is applied. It is concluded that the control figures studied present sociological ambivalence since they are linked to 1) contradictory structural demands, 2) conflict of status and 3) conflicting purposes. Keywords: Ambivalence, Corporate control, Audit, Fiscal Audit, Statutory examiner, Statutory auditor. La Revisoria Fiscal, la Comisaria y la Sindicatura son instituciones que ejercen control societario de fiscalizacion con el fin de preservar el interes general. Para alcanzar su objetivo estas instituciones deben mantener un equilibrio entre los intereses privados y los intereses publicos. Sin embargo, la defensa imparcial de estos intereses puede generar contradicciones debido a las tensiones que genera cada grupo de interes. Asi pues, en este articulo se comprende el tipo de contradicciones presentes en el control societario que realizan las instituciones mencionadas desde el marco teorico de la ambivalencia sociologica. Para dar cuenta de los tipos de ambivalencia, primero se identifican las contradicciones que han sido expresadas en articulos academicos y luego, basados en versiones orales, se analizan dichas contradicciones. En ambos casos se aplica un analisis de contenido cualitativo. Se concluye que las figuras de control estudiadas presentan ambivalencia sociologica en tanto se encuentran vinculadas a 1) demandas estructurales contradictorias, 2) conflictos de estatus y 3) conflictos de cometidos. Palabras clave: Ambivalencia, Control societario, Auditoria, Revisoria fiscal, Comisaria, Sindicatura. |
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ISSN: | 0120-4645 |
DOI: | 10.25100/cdea.v36i66.8408 |