The Reproduction of Silence in a Major Corruption Scandal

This book offers unique insights into institutional and social processes that lead to silence in the face of corruption. Authored by the whistleblower at the centre of the Airbus–GPT corruption scandal, it uses insider research to explain why individuals do not speak up when they might be expected to do so. The book draws heavily on interviews with military and civil service elites, providing highly original academic material in an area that is notoriously inaccessible and making an important contribution to the study of organisations. It is a valuable resource for researchers, practitioners and anyone interested in anti-corruption or the protection of whistleblowers. Ian Foxley is Founder and Chair of Parrhesia, a research organisation focused on providing policymakers with evidence for the reform of legislation on whistleblower protection. He is Veteran with 24 years’ service in the British Army, in which he commanded an arctic warfare troop, a parachute squadron, and a divisional communications regiment in Bosnia-Herzegovina as part of a UN peacekeeping mission and a NATO Implementation Force.