Public Relations and Whistleblowing: Golden Handcuffs in Corporate Wrongdoing

ISBN-13: 9781138293779 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 244 str.

Cary A. Greenwood

Opis

There is a growing interest in corporate whistleblowing, but no comprehensive research has yet focused on public relations practice. Drawing on extensive research on Fortune 1000 and Wilshire 5000 corporations, this book reveals executives' attitudes and relationships toward their organizations and its impact on whistleblowing. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it reveals that wrong-doing in corporations the privileges of power co-exist. Top-ranking public relations executives, who are mostly white and male, are more likely to be aware of wrongdoing but no more likely to blow the whistle, fundamentally due to their positive relationship with their employers. Using the new lens of evolutionary theory, this study explains whistleblowing, retaliation and relationships and in the light of the connection between whistleblowing behaviour and executives' attitudes, it proposes a new theory of the phenomenon of golden handcuffs. As public attitudes to corporations, CSR and transparency harden, these findings have serious implications for companies globally. Researchers, scholars and advanced students in public relations, organizational communication, corporate communication, corporate reputation, and CSR will find this book full of revealing insights.

Spis treści

Foreword; Introduction; CHAPTER I: Public Relations, Whistleblowing, and Evolution; CHAPTER II: History of Whistleblowing in The United States; CHAPTER III: Whistleblowing Research in Government, Management, and Law in the United States; CHAPTER IV: Whistleblowing Around the Globe; CHAPTER V: Whistleblowing Research in Journalism, Communication, and Public Relations in the United States; CHAPTER VI: Whistleblowing n Public Relations Study; CHAPTER VII: Whistleblowing in Public Relations Findings; CHAPTER VIII: Whistleblowing in Public Relations; APPENDICES