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http://dx.doi.org/10.13106/jafeb.2020.vol7.no11.519

Exploring the Nature of Whistle Blowing in Organizations in Asia: An Integrative Perspective  

IRAWANTO, Dodi Wirawan (Department of Management, Faculty of Economics and Business, Brawijaya University)
NOVIANTI, Khusnul Rofida (Department of Management, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Muhammadiyah Malang)
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The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business / v.7, no.11, 2020 , pp. 519-528 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper aims to synthesize and identified several constraints of the research literature about whistleblowing and its impact on the organizations from the human resource and organizational behavior point of view. The importance of study concerning whistleblowing is an important trend in this today fraudulent world, however to our knowledge an integrative review in this sense is limited. By looking at the impact of whistleblowing act in collectivist culture, especially from the Asian perspective would give an impact to the development of the studies in the future. This review using an integrative review with the distribution of databases including Sciencedirect, EBSCO, JSTOR and soon using several terms including whistleblowing and collectivist of research published during 2003 to 2018. Thirty five papers were identified, analyzed, and capturing data of research located in several Asian countries such as China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, Thailand and Turkey. The findings of this review reveals that despite a positive trend of whistleblowing research in collectivist culture, the importance to increase human resource and organizational behavior aspects also lead to positive ethic climate in organization. Human resource and organizational behavior aspects to be found have a significance role in creating ethical culture in the organization.
Keywords
Collectivist; Ethical Climate; Integrative Review; Whistleblowing;
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