Responses to Legislative Changes: Corporate Whistleblowing Policies
Survey responses from Fortune 1000 firms were examined to assess whether firms changed their whistleblowing policies to response to changes in state statutes concerning whistleblowing. We predicted that firms might have created internal channels for whistleblowing in response to new legislation that...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
1998
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| In: |
Journal of business ethics
Year: 1998, Volume: 17, Issue: 14, Pages: 1551-1561 |
| Further subjects: | B
Legal Change
B Survey Response B Internal Channel B Economic Growth B Legislative Change |
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| Summary: | Survey responses from Fortune 1000 firms were examined to assess whether firms changed their whistleblowing policies to response to changes in state statutes concerning whistleblowing. We predicted that firms might have created internal channels for whistleblowing in response to new legislation that increased their vulnerability to whistleblowing claims by employees. In fact, very few firms indicated that they had created their policies in responses to legal changes. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-0697 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1023/A:1005721605301 |