내부고발 동기요인 간 관계의 구조: 언어네트워크 분석

초록

The purpose of this study was to explore the factors that motivated whistleblowers to disclose wrongdoing and the relational structures of those factors comparing public, education/research, and business organizations. In-depth interviews were conducted with 14 Korean former whistleblowers who reported misconduct to an outside agency, such as the media, law enforcement, or special protective agencies, 4 from public organizations, 6 from education/research institutions, and 4 from businesses. The interviews were transcribed into texts, eliminating superfluous words. Using these results, we identified the words that most frequently appeared and their relational networks and calculated the centrality index and eigenvector of the networks with Ucinet. The results of this analysis revealed that the public and education/research organization whistleblowers used the words responsibility and social responsibility most often, and these words were centrally located in the semantic network of motivating factors. In the business organizations, the factors that motivated the research participants to blow the whistle were public expectation and correction, suggesting that the two factors have a rich set of semantic links and a central role in shaping whistle-blowing behaviors. The current study provides a content-based understanding of what motivates a whistle-blowing behavior.

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