Whistleblowing is a powerful and rather inexpensive instrument to contrast tax evasion. Despite the deterrent effects on evasion, whistleblowing can reduce trust undermine agents’ attitude cooperate with group members. Yet, no study has investigated potential spillover of ingroup cooperation. This paper reports results laboratory experiment in which subjects participate two consecutive phases...

Whistleblowing is a form of organizational dissent that is rarely successful, instead usually leading to disaster for the whistleblower. Organizational theorists seldom have addressed the question of how to improve whistleblowers' strategies. A useful general perspective for doing this is to conceive of bureaucracies as authoritarian political systems. The concept of political jiu-jitsu, from t...

Boumil et al praise the False Claims Act (1863, United States). I wish there were a similar act in France; instead French law makes whistleblowing an offense. This does not encourage whistleblowers. In France whistleblowers are never ‘rewarded for their efforts with monetary compensation and protection from retaliation’. Nor are they in many other European jurisdictions. In fact, the highest ad...

in the healthcare context, whistleblowing has come to the fore of political, professional and public attention in the wake of major service scandals and mounting evidence of the routine threats to safety that patients face in their care. this paper offers a commentary and wider contextualisation of mannion and davies, ‘cultures of silence and cultures of voice: the role of whistleblowing in hea...

Medicine has shed many of its privileges. Some remain and are unlikely to disappear. Knowing which of our colleagues to consult when illness strikes is priceless, if only because we can avoid a colleague who we know poses a risk to patients. This sacred knowledge is guarded by hushed whispers and nods and winks. Medical students know the repute of their teachers; junior doctors share horror sto...