Whistle-Blowers and Technology: A Cross-Cultural Framework for Effective Corporate Malfeasance Reporting Systems‪.‬

INTRODUCTION Information technology is never a neutral addition to an organization (Cutcliffe, 2006). The choices top management makes about what, when and how to implement new technologies, whether as extensive as an enterprise system (Pozzebon and Titah, 2006) or as individual as decision support tools (Kersten et al., 2002), will have consequences on how organizational members function, either for better or for worse. The functioning of organizational members, in turn, affects how well the organization succeeds in accomplishing its mission. One type of information technology of concern to all levels of management as well as society in general (Zelby, 1989) is that which provides for employee reporting of corporate malfeasance within transnational corporations.