The decision to blow the whistle: A social information processing framework

• 成果类型: Review
• 署名作者: Gundlach, MJ; Douglas, SC; Martinko, MJ
• 署名单位: State University System of Florida; Florida State University; State University of New York (SUNY) System; Binghamton University, SUNY
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0363-7425
• DOI: 10.5465/amr.2003.8925239
• 发表日期: 2003
• 页码: 107-123
• 关键词: ORGANIZATIONAL JUSTICE; Impression management; ATTRIBUTIONS; Retaliation; perceptions; aggression; predictors; INJUSTICE; judgments; responses

摘要

In this article we integrate the power, justice, and prosocial literature on whistle-blowing with the attribution and emotion literature to develop a social information processing. model. This model illustrates how individuals' attributions and responsibility judgments for wrongdoing, as well as their cost-benefit analyses of acting, influence their emotions and decisions to blow the whistle. In addition, we demonstrate how wrongdoers can use impression management tactics to manipulate whistle-blowing decisions.