“…Communication scholars have studied whistleblowing from the standpoint of upward communication (King, 1997), organizational climate (Keenan, 1988), interpersonal closeness (King, 1997), interpersonal influence (Henningsen, Valde, & Denbow, 2013), feminism (Simon, 2013), intent to blow the whistle (Richardson, Wang, & Hall, 2012), alternatives to whistleblowing (Teo & Caspersz, 2011), organizational structure (Richardson, 2005), public versus private support (McGlynn & Richardson, 2014), and image repair (King, 2006), to name a few.…”