Whistleblowing, Communication and Consequences
Lessons from The Norwegian National Lottery

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Bibliographic Details
Authors and Corporations: Sørnes, Jan-Oddvar (Author), Browning, Larry, Svenkerud, Peer Jacob
published: Taylor & Francis Ltd. 2021
Media Type: Book, E-Book

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Physical Description: 248; 4 Illustrationen, Oxford; 228 x 152 x 21
ISBN: 9780367612795
Collection: PDA Print VUB
Table of Contents

Whistleblowing, Communication and Consequences offers the first in-depth analysis of the most publicized, and morally complex, case of whistleblowing in recent European history: the Norwegian national lottery, Norsk Tipping. -- -- With contributions from the whistleblower himself, as well as from key voices in the field, this book offers unique perspectives and insights into not only this fascinating case, but into whistleblowing and wrongdoing in organizations more broadly. An international team of scholars use fourteen different theoretical lenses to show the complex and multi-faceted nature of whistleblowing. The book begins with an ethnographic account by the whistleblower story and proceeds into an analysis of the literature and conceptual topics related to that whistleblowing incident to present the lessons that can be learnt from this extreme example of institutional failure. -- -- This fascinating, complex, and multi-theoretical book will be of great interest to scholars, students and industry leaders in the areas of public relations, corporate communication, leadership, corporate social responsibility, whistleblowing and organizational resistance. -- The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. --

Part I: Introduction 1. Alone against the organization - Peer¿s whistle-blower Story 2. Whistleblowing, Voice, and Monomythology PART II: What Goes Wrong? 3. The rhetorical conditions of whistleblowing as a public act of parrhesia 4. Smothered by paradoxes and swamped by proceedures 5. Whistleblowing, identity construction, and strategic communication PART III: How Does It Happened 6. Sense-making and Whistleblowing 7. Ethical Blindness as an Explanation for Non-reporting of Organizational Wrongdoing 8. Chronotopic Distinctions in Whistleblowing Events: X-Rays of Power and Sustaining Values 9. Whistleblowing: Making a Weak Signal Stronger PART IV: What Makes Whistleblowing a Risky Business? 10. Blowing the Whistle is Laden with Risk 11. Hero or "Prince of Darkness"? Locating Peer Jacob Svenkerud in an attributions-based typology of whistleblowers 12. Norsk Tipping's loneliest stakeholder PART V: How to encourage employees to report wrongdoing? 13. The Influence of Psychological Contracts on Decision-making in Whistleblowing Processes 14. Culture Eats Control for Breakfast 15. Whistleblowing as a Means of (Re)Constituting an Organization Part VI: Epilogue 16. Epilogue: God and Devil, Hero and Villain, and the Long Journey Ahead