Whistleblowing as a Protracted Process: A Study of UK Whistleblower Journeys

This paper provides an exploration of whistleblowing as a protracted process, using secondary data from 868 cases from a whistleblower advice line in the UK. Previous research on whistleblowing has mainly studied this phenomenon as a one-off decision by someone perceiving wrongdoing within an organi...

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Authors: Vandekerckhove, Wim (Author) ; Phillips, Arron (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer 2019
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2019, Volume: 159, Issue: 1, Pages: 201-219
Further subjects:B Internal whistleblowing
B Retaliation
B Effective whistleblowing
B External whistleblowing
B Power
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