“…Moreover, cultural aspects were related to corruption such as the Brazilian jeitinho (Torres, Alfinito, Galvão, Tse, 2015) or can explain avoidance to whistleblowing (Behrens, 2015). However, very few studies investigated corruption using the network lens to identify corrupt actors (Bon, Volkema, Silva, 2017;Ribeiro, Alves, Martins and Leniz, 2018) or personal relationships and individual factors which can impact whistleblowing (Sampaio, 2015;Santos, Guevara &Amorim, 2013).…”