Collectivism and reporting of organizational wrongdoing in public organizations: the case of county administration in Kenya

Onyango, Gedion

doi:10.1080/03906701.2017.1298429

Cited by 21 publications

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“…These findings underscore the magnitude with which corruption and collectivism can suppress whistleblowing in Pakistan. Onyango (2017) found a similar effect in Kenya. Kenya is another developing country with a collectivist culture.…”

Section: Why India?mentioning

confidence: 59%

Whistleblowing in India: evidence from accounting students and professionals

Brody

Gupta

White

2020

IJAIM

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine whistleblowing behavior in the accounting community (students and professionals) in an emerging economy – India. Design/methodology/approach Using a case-based approach, data were collected from 263 accounting students and 268 accounting professionals in India. Findings Using multivariate and univariate analyses of variance and logistic regressions, the authors provided evidence on how accounting students and professionals behave in a whistleblowing environment. Specifically, the authors found mixed results when comparing the behavior of accounting students and professionals in a whistleblowing scenario. All subjects reflected a more collectivist attitude, although professionals were more concerned about “fixing” the identified internal control problem (a “shared” problem). Both groups expressed a firm desire to collect more evidence against the likely fraudster. Practical implications In this era of global offshoring of services including accounting, the current study makes significant contributions to the accounting ethics literature and the accounting profession by analyzing whistleblowing behavior from an Indian perspective – a highly underrepresented area in the accounting ethics literature. The study aims to guide companies and investors in the US and elsewhere that do business in India. Originality/value While the accounting literature has plenty of research on whistleblowing in the Western world, there is a dearth of literature on whistleblowing in India. This paper is among the first to document whistleblowing behavior in India, a country that prides itself on its vast availability of English-speaking and technically sound accounting professionals.

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Section: Why India?mentioning

confidence: 59%

Whistleblowing in India: evidence from accounting students and professionals

Brody

Gupta

White

2020

IJAIM

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“…Therefore, definitions and constructs of human rights, social sanctions, power relations, and reciprocity systems are primarily embedded in societal norms and structures while the formal government organisation is conceived largely as an arena where the needed material resources for securing social well-being are mobilised (e.g. Gupta 1995;Oliver de Sardan 1999;Fjeldstad 2005;Onyango 2017).…”

Section: The Mismatch Between Administrative and Societal Normsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Even though, this kind of state-society relations is changing or withering off, loyalty to one's kin in public administration is still valued more than to institutions, a parameter that some have attributed to the prevalence of corruption and a culture that condemns whistleblowing in developing countries (e.g., Uys and Senekal 2008;Onyango 2017). For instance, a study of corruption in the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) established intricate informal power relations between a commissioner and his subordinate.…”

Section: The Mismatch Between Administrative and Societal Normsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Whistleblower protection in developing countries: a review of challenges and prospects

Onyango

2021

SN Bus Econ

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“…There is a small but growing literature on Kenya's devolution 'experiment' (Burbidge 2019). Michelle D'Arcy and Agnes Cornell (2016) write on how devolution has expanded the number of 'winners' in Kenya's political system, though they find that problems of corruption have persisted if not increased alongside the greater reliance on county governments for public service delivery (see also Onyango 2017;Cannon and Ali 2018). Nic Cheeseman, Gabrielle Lynch and Justin Willis highlight the competition between national and county politicians during devolution's early years of implementation, and note that '[t]he combination of vigilant governors, constitutional protections and public popularity suggests that devolution in Kenya is here to stay ' (2016, 31).…”

Section: Scholarship On Devolution and The 2017 Kenyan Elections Thus Farmentioning

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Transition to subnational democracy: Kenya’s 2017 presidential and gubernatorial elections

Burbidge

2020

Regional & Federal Studies

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Perceptions of the legitimacy of the 2017 subnational elections in Kenya have been bound-up with perceptions of the presidential race, which was nullified by the Supreme Court, casting doubt on the results of subnational elections held on the same day. I conduct a nationally representative survey on the way citizens voted on election day, akin to an exit-poll of Kenya's 2017 elections, and find that the survey responses match with the electoral commission's announcement of results. I additionally overview all court cases disputing the 2017 gubernatorial results and again find no reason to reject the electoral commission's pronouncement of results. Based on the evidence provided I argue that the Supreme Court nullification of the presidential vote does not cast doubt on the accuracy of the gubernatorial vote. The findings point to a strong and robust democratization underway at the subnational level in Kenya.

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Collectivism and reporting of organizational wrongdoing in public organizations: the case of county administration in Kenya

Cited by 21 publications

References 60 publications

Whistleblowing in India: evidence from accounting students and professionals

Whistleblowing in India: evidence from accounting students and professionals

Whistleblower protection in developing countries: a review of challenges and prospects

Transition to subnational democracy: Kenya’s 2017 presidential and gubernatorial elections

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