Purpose – This paper aims to compare and contrast the approaches taken by the UK and Norway in providing employment protection for whistleblowers. Design/methodology/approach – The paper examines the legislative provisions contained in the Employment Rights Act 1996 (UK) and the Work...

Purpose – The aim of the paper is to consider the efficacy of requiring a public interest test to be satisfied before protection is afforded to workers who blow the whistle under Part IVA of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (ERA 1996). Design/methodology/approach – Not all definitions of...

In many countries the existence of a comprehensive approach to environmental control through the auspices of a unified control agency is accepted. In the United States, for instance, the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has received substantial support. Allen Kneese remarked...

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to explain why whistleblowing is important and to examine the recent empirical research relating to such confidential reporting/whistleblowing procedures in the UK. Design/methodology/approach – This article refers to the 1999 IRS Employment...

Purpose – Organizational life and policy making is increasingly conceived in terms of a “three sector” model – public, private and “third”. The purpose of this research paper is to examine a little‐studied phenomenon that increasingly characterises societies in both the...