ABSTRACT
This chapter explains normative legitimation constructs for whistle blowing policies around the concepts of human rights, organizational social responsibility, responsibility and accountability, integrity, loyalty and efficiency. It also explains the network perspective and stakeholder theory. The first normative legitimation construct hooks whistle blowing policies with the network perspective as a conceptual constituency of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). The second construction starts from the link with the stakeholder concept. The reason why the network perspective connects so well with the stakeholder concept is that both view an organization in terms of relationships with its environment, whereby the environment is conceptualized as a set of social actors. The globalization semantic exhaustively described by discussing flexibility, decentralization, governance, networks and stakeholders are primary concepts. The three concepts flexibility, decentralization, governance are interrelated and are constitutive for each other's meaning. It develops the semantic constructions of normative legitimation for whistle blowing policies.
