---

Media Relations

Guardians of Public Interest

The Korea Times
April 17, 2006

Guardians of Public Interest

By Kim Dok-man

While theft can be committed by "outside thieves" or "inside thieves," says this article, the consequences for reporting a theft vary in both situations. People who report an "outside theft" are likely to be celebrated as heros. But people who report an "inside theft" -- someone stealing public funds from the inside, for example -- are called "whistleblowers." Janet Near, the Dale Coleman Chair of Management and professor of organizational theory in the IU Kelley School of Business, studied whistleblowers and published the results in 1996 in The Journal of Management. Her research is used in this article to profile whistleblower characteristics.

Read the story at: http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/opinion/200604/kt2006041716540754330.htm

Meet Janet Near at: http://www.kelley.iu.edu/management/near.shtmlx

Go to the Kelley School of Business Web page at: http://www.bus.indiana.edu/KSB_Global/index.html

---

---