Whistle-blower provisions are an important strategy to address organizational misconduct and rule breaking. In a sense, such provisions enlist people in organizations to perform a vital regulatory role, namely, to detect illegal behavior from within the organization. Whistleblowers can solve two key problems in the legal regulation of organizational wrongdoing. First, they help to get information from inside the organization that outside inspectors simply cannot get. Second, such whistleblowers add inspection capacity to government authorities who often do not have the means or staff to carry
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