Whistleblowing and Organizational Social Responsibility

A Global Assessment

Wim Vandekerckhove

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9780754647508
• eBook ISBN:
  9781134764006
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Business

Establishing a policy and building a culture that helps to protect organizations from financial wrong-doing, criminal or civil liability and permanent damage to corporate reputation has become a central theme of contemporary corporate policies towards 'whistleblowing'. This book is amongst the first to provide a detailed and full-length analysis of the meaning and various justifications of whistleblowing policies. While the legitimization of organizational whistleblowing suggests an adaptation of organizations to public opinion, this book examines the wider legitimization whistleblowing policies have been given, considering whether the establishment of 'policies' genuinely leads to the implicit institutionalization of whistleblowing itself. The book's particular focus is upon what kinds of 'whistleblowing' societies and organizations actually want, and whether policies developed as a result meet expectations.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• Notes on Contributors
• Preface
• 1 Heritage Expertise and the Everyday: Citizens and Authority in the Twenty-first Century
• 2 Revisiting the Dewey–Lippman (1925–7) Debate, Faro and Expertise in the Humanities
• 3 Ethnography of a ‘Humble Expert’: Experiencing Faro
• 4 Old Bag’s Way: Space and Power in Contemporary Heritage
• 5 Counter-mapping and Migrancy on the Georges River
• 6 Faro and the LGBT Heritage Community
• 7 More than a Sensitive Ear: What to Expect of a Professional Expert
• 8 Who Would Believe Experts? Interrogating the Discourses of Archaeologists and Interest Groups in Two Recent Heritage Disputes in Ireland
• 9 Cinema under the Stars, Heritage from Below
• 10 Finding People in the Heritage of Bankside, Southwark
• 11 Punks and Drunks: Counter-mapping Homelessness in Bristol And York
• 12 Local World Heritage: Relocating Expertise in World Heritage Management
• 13 Contesting the ‘Expert’ at the former Bradford Odeon, West Yorkshire
• 14 A Most Peculiar Memorial: Cultural Heritage and Fiction
• 15 Reykjavik’s Abandoned Building Sites: Heritage of an Economic Collapse?
• 16 What Was Wrong With Dufton? Reflections on Counter-Mapping: Self, Alterity and Community
• Index