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Who Is a Whistleblower? Current Debates in Multi-stakeholder Forums on Stretching the Concept

In: Whistleblowing Policy and Practice, Volume II

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  • Wim Vandekerckhove

    (EDHEC Business School)

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This chapter provides a personal reflection on salient debates on the meaning of whistleblowing. My reflection is based on participating between 2018 and 2023 in multi-stakeholder forums where whistleblowing was discussed: reporting mechanisms in sport hosted by the International Olympic Committee and UNODC, several anti-corruption projects funded by the Council of Europe, the working groups that developed the international standard on handling whistleblowing reports ISO37002:2021 Whistleblowing Management Systems Guidelines, and a tripartite technical meeting at the ILO. The chapter argues that salient topics in current debates revolve around who counts as whistleblower. Specific debates commented on in this chapter include: journalists as whistleblowers, organizations as whistleblowers, non-worker whistleblowers, role-prescribed reporting as whistleblowing, and pre-whistleblowing whistleblowing.

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  • Wim Vandekerckhove, 2025. "Who Is a Whistleblower? Current Debates in Multi-stakeholder Forums on Stretching the Concept," Springer Books, in: Meghan Van Portfliet & Arron Phillips (ed.), Whistleblowing Policy and Practice, Volume II, chapter 0, pages 13-24, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-93170-3_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-93170-3_2
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