Whistleblowing and Organizational Social Responsibility

Wim Vandekerckhove is a post-doctoral researcher at the Center for Ethics and Value Inquiry (CEVI), Ghent University, Belgium. He researches and teaches in the fields of business ethics, organization ethics, social responsible investment, migration and trafficking, and recently in the field of global ethics. He published chapters in edited books on migration and NGOs and on organization and business ethics, as well as papers in the Journal of Business Ethics and other academic journals. He has edited three journal issues on corporate social responsibility.

• Introduction; 1: Developing Research Questions; 2: Developing the Framework for an Ethical Assessment; 3: Possible Legitimation of Whistleblowing Policies; 4: Screening Whistleblowing Policies; 5: Towards what Legitimation of Whistleblowing?

'During the past decade, Western countries have introduced a large amount of whistleblowing legislation. We analysed the cases, discussed best practices and policy effectiveness, but nobody ever questioned the legitimation structures behind the legislation. A timely book that reveals the true ethics of whistleblowing policies.' Luc Van Liedekerke, University of Leuven and Antwerpen, Belgium '...Vandekerckhove offers an exhaustive analysis of legitimization constructs and legislative implementations of whistleblowing policies all over the world...a must read for all practitioners that have to sell, market, oppose, lobby, or use a particular whistleblowing policy...' Ethical Perspectives