@inbook{c99a640fd4ed4408867dc815e71ff26d,
title = "Whistleblowing as a Means of (Re)Constituting an Organization",
abstract = "The relationship between whistleblowing and authority is a complicated one: the act of whistleblowing can be viewed simultaneously as an effort to challenge the authority of an organization as responsible actor and to assert the authority of the whistleblower as a knowledgeable agent. In this chapter, we interrogate how competing authority was constituted and enacted through the ongoing communication of Norsk Tipping and its management, and through the actions of PJS. We offer two different readings of how whistleblowing constitutes a struggle for authority, contrasting how this case can be viewed through the perspectives of how communication is constitutive of organizations (CCO) and collective communication design (CCD). From a CCD perspective, we can see how Norsk Tipping exerted its authority to enlist workers in its ongoing fraud, and how that design influenced the eventual whistleblowing. In both perspectives, whistleblowing produces ambiguity regarding who had what forms of authority and who now has authority for communicating about past actions.",
author = "Smith, {William Rothel} and Treem, {Jeffrey W.} and Barbour, {Joshua B.}",
year = "2021",
doi = "10.4324/9780367822033-20",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9780367421335",
series = "Routledge Studies in Communication, Organization, and Organizing",
publisher = "Taylor and Francis Inc.",
pages = "214--228",
editor = "Svenderud, {Peer Jacob} and Jan-Oddvar S{\o}rnes and Larry Browning",
booktitle = "Whistleblowing, Communication and Consequences",
address = "United States",
}