Binding: Paperback
Description: 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 their impact on whistleblowing. Perhaps unsurprisingly it reveals that wrongdoing in corporations and the privileges of power coexist. 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 behavior and executives attitudes it proposes a new theory of the phenomenon of Golden Handcuffs. As public attitudes to corporations corporate social responsibility (CSR) and transparency harden these findings have serious implications for companies globally. Researchers scholars and advanced students in public relations organizational communication corporate communication strategic communication corporate reputation and CSR will find this book full of revealing insights.
Title: Public Relations And Whistleblowing Golden Handcuffs In Corporate Wrongdoing
Author(s): Greenwood Cary A. (Middle Tennessee State University Usa.)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9781032005379
Pages: 244 Pages, 32 Tables, Black And White
Publication Date: 9/29/2021
Series: Routledge New Directions in PR & Communication Research
Category: Public Relations