Organizational silence and whistle-blowing on IT projects: An integrated model

Decision Sciences

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 901-918

  Park, Chongwoo ^a   Keil, Mark ^b  

^a GEORGIA GWINNETT COLLEGE   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bad news reporting; Organizational silence; Project management; Whistle blowing

Indexed keywords

EID: 72449135770     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: 15405915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.2009.00255.x     Document Type: Article

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