Abstract
With this special issue, we aim to draw the attention of researchers in the field of Industrial and Labour Relations to the issue of whistleblowing. The contributions in this special issue show whistleblowing as a viable topic for such research from a comparative and international perspective. Because of the complex organisational dynamics whistleblowing triggers, and the public interest in discovering organisational wrongdoing, whistleblowing is more of a focal point than a contested place for organization studies, political sociology, psychology, legal research, philosophy, and labour studies, as the various approaches used in the papers presented here shows. It has recently also become a topic on which not just academics from various disciplines interact, but also where academics, campaigners, managers, and policy makers collaborate. We hope this special issue can further facilitate such collaboration.
Key Words: whistleblowing, comparative research, legal research, interdisciplinary analysis