Année
2024
Auteurs
MALAURENT Julien, MEHRPOUYA Afshin
Abstract
This piece is part of a larger project we have been working on related to the Chinese Social Credit System (SCS). Under the SCS project, since 2014, China launched a vast series of initiatives at rural, urban, provincial and national levels that aim to monitor and educate its entire population and businesses for their credit/trustworthiness. To do so, a large and diverse constellation of private and public entities are engaged in tracking, and recording the behaviors of individuals, as well as businesses, with the objective to educate them through the cultivation of fundamental values like trust, creditworthiness and honesty. SCS comprises three main infrastructures, credit ratings (not unlike those in the west), black and red lists which are publicly communicated list of untrustworthy and model companies and citizens, and social credit scores, which are diverse scoring systems of company/citizens’ social behavior being deployed at urban and provincial levels. This interconnected system uses a mix of market incentives and deprivations, public naming and shaming and a vast communication and educational apparatus to create a culture of social trust and market credibility.
MALAURENT, J. et MEHRPOUYA, A. (2024). Literature and Insights: My Name is Red: an imaginary immersion into the voices and murmurs of the Chinese social credit system and its artifacts. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 37(6), pp. 1621-1636.