Who is the whistleblower, and how do they reach the difficult decision to blow the whistle? The article argues that the … whistleblower. What is missing, in particular, is a better, sociologically informed, understanding of the various social domains in … whistleblower’s moral reflexivity. To pursue this idea, the article conducts a qualitative analysis of 14 whistleblower …

The Dodd-Frank Act provides that SEC whistleblower awards must equal not less than 10 and not more than 30 percent of … make sense? To begin to answer that question requires an understanding of the purpose of whistleblower awards and an …

In this article we focus on a previously neglected cost of whistle-blower awards: employers may base their hiring … whistle-blower. We develop a three-stage model to examine how productivity losses due to distortions at the hiring stage … influence optimal whistle-blower rewards. We characterize optimal rewards for whistle-blowing, and show that the size of these …