Integrating Models of Whistle-Blowing and Wrongdoing: A Proposal for a New Research Agenda

Rebels in Groups: Dissent, Deviance, Difference and Defiance

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 302-323

  Near, Janet P ^a   Miceli, Marcia P ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Integrating models of whistle blowing and wrongdoing a new research agenda proposal; Prediction and understanding and labelling of organisational activities as wrongdoing; Predictors of labelling, whether wrongdoing occurred among organisation members; Propositions about normalisation of wrongdoing predictors of whistle blowing; Propositions, and model of normalisation of wrongdoing; Propositions, related to rationalisation of wrongdoing; Prosocial organizational behaviour (POB) model and social information processing (SIP) model; Recent corporate scandals how wrongdoing in organizations, can be prevented and corrected; Whistle blowers, disclosing illegal, immoral or illegitimate practices; Whistle blowing defined in various ways

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886550278     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444390841.ch16     Document Type: Chapter

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