Contributing to the literature on stigma and re-legitimation, this paper examines two ways
organizations may dampen the penalties associated with admissions of misconduct. Using a …

Recent work on organizational stigma considers corporate misconduct to be a stigmatizing
act, and has confirmed many negative consequences that follow from it. This paper uses …

In this article, I address the question of the apportionment of the consequences of
organizational misconduct to individual members of the organizational elite. I argue that this …

Organizational stigma is widely assumed to be a serious liability. However, a small body of
research has begun to show that stigma can also lead to positive outcomes. A core …

The study examines a process model of how firms regain legitimacy after allegations of
organizational misconduct. The sample is 75 public firms that were sanctioned for paying …

This paper explores whether a firm's misconduct can affect the compensation of former
managers who were neither at the firm at the time of misdeeds nor involved in the scandal …

Organizational misconduct, which suggests ineffective monitoring and oversight, focuses
attention on top-level management and may damage organizational legitimacy. Under the …

I apply stigma-management strategies to corporate scandals and expand on past research
by (a) describing a particular type of stigma management strategy that involves accepting …

We examine corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting strategies by focusing on
stigmatized firms belonging to the alcohol, tobacco, gambling, nuclear energy and firearm …

An organization may be stigmatized for the nature of its activities (core stigma), or for
misconduct (event stigma). Stigma damages an organization's legitimacy and threatens its …