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Whistle-blowing in its simplest form involves one party accusing another of a breach of an ethical or legal duty. In the context of a corporation, the accusation is directed toward an action attributable to the organisation (target firm) itself. The accusation can be made within the corporation, characterised as internal whistle-blowing, or may be made public outside of the organisation, commonly called external whistle-blowing (De George, 1986).
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Dunfee, T.W. (1990). To Encourage or Repress? Corporate Policy and Whistle-Blowing. In: Enderle, G., Almond, B., Argandoña, A. (eds) People in Corporations. Issues in Business Ethics, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2083-5_16
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