Bringing good and bad Whistle-blowers to the Lab
نویسنده
چکیده
Whistle-blowing is seen as a powerful tool in containing corruption, although theoretical findings and experimental evidence cast doubt on its effectiveness. We expand a standard corruption model by allowing both, briber and official to initiate corruption actively, in order to assess the full effect of whistle-blowing. In our laboratory experiment we find that the effect of symmetrically punished whistle-blowing is ambiguous since it reduces the impact of corruption on productive activity, but also increases its stability. We show that asymmetric leniency for the official offsets the negative effect. The results can be explained by simple arguments about belief structures within the self-interested model of payoff maximizing.
منابع مشابه
When Whistle-blowers Become the Story: The Problem of the ‘Third Victim’; Comment on “Cultures of Silence and Cultures of Voice: The Role of Whistleblowing in Healthcare Organisations”
In the healthcare context, whistleblowing has come to the fore of political, professional and public attention in the wake of major service scandals and mounting evidence of the routine threats to safety that patients face in their care. This paper offers a commentary and wider contextualisation of Mannion and Davies, ‘Cultures of silence and cultures of voice: the role of whistleblowing in hea...
متن کاملMotivational Antecedents of Whistle-Blowing in Iranian Public Service Organizations
This paper empirically explores how whistle-blowers, as members of a collective or as individual actors, are motivated to report a wrongdoing in public service organizations of Iran. Whistle-blowing in the service organizations of public sector utilizes the mass media to call the attention of public to corruption activities that are associated to the misuse of public funding in a direct way. Th...
متن کاملگزارش خطای بیمارستانی توسط پرستاران
Errors occur commonly in hospitals and nurses are potential observers of these misconducts and they can prevent them by reporting. This research studies the types of errors, misconducts, and inappropriate situations in the nursing field, compares these errors in private and public hospitals and finally studies individuals' reactions to these errors (whistle-blowing and not whistle-blowing). Two...
متن کاملDeveloping and teaching the virtue-ethics foundations of healthcare whistle blowing.
Healthcare whistle blowing, despite the benefits it has brought to healthcare systems in many developed countries, remains generally regarded as a pariah activity by many of the most influential healthcare professionals and regulatory institutions. Few if any medical schools or law department health law and bioethics classes, teach whistle blowing in a formal sense. Yet without exception, publi...
متن کاملرابطه برونگرایی و نورزگرایی با افشاگری تخلف سازمانی
Abstract Whistle- blowers are people who expose misconducts or unethical behaviors that exists in the organization. It seems that personality is one reason why some employees are more incline than others to engage in whistle-blowing behavior Measurement of personality with narrow band form can't detect significant relations properly, so in the current research we apply facet measure of two per...
متن کامل