James Wainberg, Florida Atlantic University (IMAGE)

Florida Atlantic University

James Wainberg, Florida Atlantic University

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James Wainberg, Ph.D., a professor of accounting at FAU's College of Business and co-author of the study, which is the first to demonstrate that promoting explicit whistleblower protections can have the unintended consequence of actually inhibiting reporting of misconduct by intensifying the perceived risk of retaliation.

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