There is a growing body of literature and research on the topic of whistleblowing and other anti-corruption strategies. Here are a few recommended books.
This selection includes self-help for whistleblowers, whistleblower legislation, cases studies, research, and personal memoirs of whistleblowers.
Many informed observers see the pharmaceutical industry as the natural successor to the tobacco industry: enormously wealthy and politically connected, ruthless, and much more concerned about profit than about the health of its customers.
Here are seven books describing the questionable practices that are an integral part of these powerful corporations' business model.
You have a decent job and work hard. You keep your nose clean, respect authority and have never joined a protest march. Suddenly you have the bad luck to face a cruel and seemingly impossible choice. Your superiors tell you to do something outrageous or unacceptable. Do you obey or, at grave personal cost, refuse?
In “Beautiful Souls”, a subtle and thoughtful book, Eyal Press, an American journalist, tells the stories of four very ordinary people who, in widely different times, places and circumstances, surprised themselves by saying “no”.
One thing we can thank the recent credit crisis and global financial meltdown for is the way it lifted the lid on a sector of the economy we hadn’t been giving enough attention.
That sector is the financial industry. In Thieves of Bay Street, investigative journalist Bruce Livesey looks at how Canada’s banks, brokerages, funds, and financial advisers have been ripping off Canadians for years. And while headline makers like Conrad Black and Earl Jones dominate Livesey’s chronicles of white collar crime, the not-so-few bad apples aren’t as important as the rotten barrel he describes.
Heather Brooke is fashioned like one of those Amazonian carvings on the prow of a ship, breasting the ocean of deceit and greed with her cinnamon hair flying, eyes blazing and long chin thrust forward. Defiance seems to be her natural stance and, like a ship’s figurehead, she would strike fear into the enemy.
She is the journalist who smelt a rat over MPs’ expenses and for five years doggedly used the Freedom of Information Act to try to prise out the details. But for The Daily Telegraph's scoop, which effectively robbed her of personal victory but made her a campaigning heroine, not many people would have heard of her.
It began with that monstrous young man so evil we needed to blindfold him and strap him to a board, that confusing young man who looked like Christ but cast us in the role of crucifiers, that treasonous young man who brought dark and heathen evils across linguistic and cultural borders and brought torture onto the list of accepted government actions.
When you hear the phrase "American Taliban" you probably think of a young American who betrayed his country, aided its enemies, and - like Saddam Hussein - was behind the attacks of 9-11. John Walker Lindh was an American. That part is accurate.
The GAP publication The Corporate Whistleblower's Survival Guide: A Handbook for Committing the Truth, released this past April, has been awarded the prestigious getAbstract International Business Book of the Year Award at this year's Frankfurt Book Fair.
This prize seeks to honor books that have made a worldwide impact in business and economics. GAP Legal Director Tom Devine and former GAP Investigator Tarek Maassarani penned the book. The guide prevailed in the face of much competition, as it was chosen from over 10,000 non-fiction books, and then selected from 10 finalists.
My guest today is Tom Devine, legal director of the Government Accountability Project [GAP] and author of the newly released: The Corporate Whistleblower's Survival Guide: A Handbook for Committing the Truth. Welcome to OpEdNews, Tom. Why did you write this book?
Thank you, Joan. It's an honor. Like many whistleblowers, I am a big fan of OpEdNews. The short answer is that I wanted to share 32 years of lessons learned helping over 5,000 whistleblowers. People who may be traveling the highest risk, highest principled road of their life should not have to proceed by trial and error.
It is especially fitting that the Canadian War Museum was the venue for the launch of a book that is intended to improve the lot of those who serve in our forces.
The event featured an impressive array of speakers including recently-retired Supreme Court judge Ian Binnie, Justice Edmund Blanchard, and Richard Pound, former vice president of the International Olympic Committee, who all paid tribute to the authors and their 1,900-page volume. Governor General David Johnston, Commander-in-Chief of the Canadian Forces was also present.
After 30 years of climbing the corporate ladder, Gordon Massie said he risked it all to do the right thing.He said he decided to expose the corruption and accounting fraud he discovered while working at American International Group Inc. As a result, he was shunned and ostracized at work and eventually fired.
In his recent book, The Whistleblower's Dilemma: Confronting Fraud at AIG, Massie describes his journey from the top to the bottom and the steps he took to survive the aftermath. The author launched his memoir with a speech and book-signing at Lone Star College–Montgomery.
