Whistleblowing : toward a new theory / Kate Kenny.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kenny, Kate, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Whistle blowing.

Retribution.

Organizational behavior.

Organizational change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Society needs whistleblowers, yet to speak up and expose wrongdoing often results in professional and personal ruin. Drawing on the stories of men and women who reported unethical and illegal conduct in corporations, Kate Kenny explains why this is so, and what must be done to protect those who have the courage to expose the truth.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

1. Speaking Out: What We Know

2. Whistleblowing: The Subject and Power

3. Global Finance: Norms of Complicity

4. The Whistleblower as Professional: Subjection to Norms

5. Whistleblower Retaliation: Impossible Speech and Violence

6. Speaking Out in Public: Toward Possible Speech

7. Media, Recruitment, and Friends: Excluding the Public Whistleblower

8. Turning Inward: Excluding the Self

9. Coping with Retaliation: Affective Recognition

10. Small Victories and Making Fun: Performing the Whistleblower

Conclusion

Appendix: Project Method

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Apr 2019)

ISBN:

9780674239722

0674239725

9780674239715

0674239717

OCLC:

1086210804