Verkkopublic administration scholars have provided a variety of theoretical insights to understand bureaucratic whistleblowing, and have emphasized its. Verkkothe book provides a comprehensive treatment of the aca. The first chapter lays out the terrain, highlighting the importance of whistle. Verkkowe find that fraud detection does not rely on one single mechanism, but on a wide range of, often improbable, actors. Only 6% of the frauds are revealed by the sec. To identify the most effective mechanisms for detecting corporate fraud, we study all reported fraud cases in large u. s. Verkkothe authors investigate empirically who blows the whistle on corporate fraud by assembling and analyzing data on all reported fraud cases in. We investigate the role of the regulatory environment and the press freedom in detecting corporate fraud. We study 1,242 internal frauds. Verkkoa company involved with fraud is more likely to lose the client if it blows the whistle than if it does not, while there is no significance evidence that bringing the fraud to light.
