European Journal of Business and Management

Expressed as the announcement and revealing of unethical behaviors, the whistleblowing action is carried outonly because of the ethical necessities according to the complicity theory. However, the revealing of unethicalbehaviors could become fact completely as a result of ethical achievements and as well in consequence of thepersonal attitudes such as exhaustion, grudge and hatred. The most concrete example for this is the individualswho escaped from criminal organizations and then became confessors. It is obvious that these persons left theirorganizations and became confessors not because of ethical reasons but because of exhaustion and pressure. Asimilar case exists in business life as well. Therefore, the…