Effective Whistle-Blowing

Whistleblowing is often assumed to benefit society at large - whether from the view of 60 Minutes or from that of the members of the nearly 40 state legislatures that have passed statutes to protect whistleblowers. Yet empirical research on conditions that lead whistleblowers to be effective in gett...

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Published in:The Academy of Management review 1995-07, Vol.20 (3), p.679-708
Main Authors: Near, Janet P, Miceli, Marcia P
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Effectiveness
Employees
Litigation
Management techniques
Managers
Occupational safety
Organizational change
Theory
Whistleblowing
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Summary:Whistleblowing is often assumed to benefit society at large - whether from the view of 60 Minutes or from that of the members of the nearly 40 state legislatures that have passed statutes to protect whistleblowers. Yet empirical research on conditions that lead whistleblowers to be effective in getting organizational wrongdoing stopped is woefully absent. Encouraging whistleblowing is inappropriate unless a person knows something about those variables that increase the likelihood that whistleblowing will be effective. A model of effective whistleblowing, from which a set of propositions is derived, is based on theory and preliminary research in the area.
ISSN:0363-7425
1930-3807
DOI:10.2307/258791