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| Ana Isabel Canhoto  |
Working Title: Investigating the impact of organizational structures in the communication of meaning: profiling and money-laundering detection systems |
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This research is an investigation of the extent to which an organisation’s structures and processes impact on the process of communication of meaning. It uses the specific case of profiling of money laundering behaviour as a means to illustrate how meaning is constructed and operationalized through the organization. Profiling is becoming an overarching feature of modern society and acting on flawed profiles can result in disastrous consequences for the individuals being profiled and for the organisations acting on those profiles. The key assumption of money laundering profiling is that the banking behaviour of money laundering criminals is different from that of other individuals. Therefore, it is critical to the institutions that fight this crime to understand how different that behaviour is, and how anomalous behaviour may be recognized. Having identified instances of anomalous behaviour, organizations then need to decide which of those are, indeed, suspicious activities needing further action. This research contrasts the technical and behavioural aspects of profiling. The development and use of profiles, as an activity that attempts to represent behaviour, will be studied both from a cognitive and from a semiotics perspective: the former to address the mental activity, the later to address the representational one. |
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