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ArticleInternational journal of health policy and management2015

What Makes Whistleblowers So Threatening?: Comment on "Cultures of Silence and Cultures of Voice: The Role of Whistleblowing in Healthcare Organisations".

Charles Frederick Alford

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Article in International journal of health policy and management, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Charles Frederick AlfordDepartment of Government and Politics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
University of Maryland, College Park · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Whistleblowing is defined by the retaliation that those who speak out receive. Why some organizations find it almost impossible not to retaliate depends more on the properties of the organization than the act of the individual whistleblower. These properties are, to greater or lesser degree, present in all organizations. Not all organizations retaliate against whistleblowers, but the whistleblower represents a threat to every organization. And to every individual within the organization, because the whistleblower challenges the morality and ethics of the rest of us.

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Organizational CultureTruth DisclosureWhistleblowingHumans"Commit the Truth"Organizational StructureWhistleblowersWhistleblowing

Identifiers

PMID26673655
PMCPMC4676977
OpenAlexW2186645510

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