Pedro Natividade Jørgensen - 2nd year PhD presentation

Supervisors: Sonja Perkovic & Nikolaj Niebuhr Lambertsen
Discussants: Anne Pechel & Franziska Günzel-Jensen

Abstract
This presentation focuses on an ongoing study of whistleblowing management systems for more than 8.000 European organizations operating under the recent EU Whistleblowing Directive on the Protection of Whistleblowers. Drawing on Business Process Management and Signalling Theory, the study examines how organizations balance competing demands for governance standardization and reporting legitimacy when designing digital whistleblowing management systems.

Using organizational data obtained through collaboration with a European whistleblowing platform provider, the study investigates how variation in reporting channels, outsourced governance arrangements, and trust-enhancing design features relates to reporting activity and case-handling outcomes across firms from different countries with varying sizes.

The study contributes to emerging whistleblowing literature by moving beyond reporting intentions and examining naturally occurring reporting within existing whistleblowing management systems. Moreover, the study contributes to broader discussions in BPM by examining the role of process standardization in complex organizational contexts.

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