The determinants of whistleblowing in public administrations: an analysis conducted in Italian health organizations, universities, and municipalities

Pietro Previtali and Paola Cerchiello

Public Management Review, 2018, vol. 20, issue 11, 1683-1701

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to examine which variables are most important in encouraging whistleblowing in Italian public administrations, as a result of the compulsory application of the anti-corruption Law No. 190/2012. Our research is based on an empirical analysis of 365 public administrations: 86 hospitals, 137 health agencies, 39 universities, and 103 major Italian municipalities.The results show that whistleblowing seems to occur more frequently in large public administrations, to be associated with formal procedures and an organizational proceduralization that encourages individuals to actually blow the whistle, and that it is only partially correlated to training and education.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2017.1417468

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