Author: Radu Ionescu

Abstract: Hidden vulnerabilities are exposed by stressors. These stressors can be natural (flood, earthquake, heat-wave, etc.) or man-made (earthquake, flood, economic crisis, pathogen development, storage tank explosion, etc.). If the system they impact is riddled with vulnerabilities it will collapse. If a building is poorly built, because of say poor corporate ethics on the part of the contractor or corruption allowing lax observation of codes, it will collapse whether because of a natural earthquake or a man-made landslide. Whistleblowing can reveal these hidden vulnerabilities, but it also potentially manifests differently across different types of organisations, so we therefore encourage research in Romania to compare whistleblowing arrangements across the various organizational sectors.

Keywords: disaster, whistleblowing, organisations, ethics, organisational sector.

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