 Stumbling into action research. Chapter 1 in Convenience Triangle in White-Collar Crime, 2019, pp 5-17 from Edward Elgar Publishing Abstract: My research agenda is often to evaluate work by fraud examiners when there is a suspicion of financial crime by white-collar offenders. Two whistleblowers in a municipality in Norway had reported suspicions of fraud and corruption, which resulted in internal investigations in the municipality by external fraud examiners from global auditing firm BDO and local law firm Hjort. As the case developed, I established contact with the whistleblowers as my key informants. My research perspective developed into the role of whistleblowers in detecting and revealing white-collar crime. Both whistleblowers perceived retaliation from the chief executive in the municipality, which caused me concern. Journalists interviewed me in the local media, and I wrote articles in their newspapers. As the situation deteriorated further for the whistleblowers, I went to the local police and reported the chief executive for retaliation against whistleblowers. This chapter thus presents the background for my stumbling into action research, as the media coverage and the police report might have influenced the sequence of events in the municipality. Keywords: Business and Management; Economics and Finance; Law - Academic (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:18953_1 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing |
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