Stigmas pervade organizational life. A stigma is a discrediting social evaluation that
devalues an individual or group. We review research on stigmatized work and stigmatized …

Drawing from Goffman's original observations on stigma and the consequences of
interactions between the stigmatized and supportive or stigmatizing audiences, we conduct …

Stigma has become an increasingly significant challenge for society. Recognition of this
problem is indicated by the growing attention paid to it within the management literature …

Research has suggested that when an occupation is stigmatized, new occupational
members will assume the stigma of incumbents because stigma transfers. Yet, current …

Since its introduction as a concept, organizational stigma has become central to explaining
how organizations or industries become tainted, and how they overcome and manage such …

Organizations commonly regard memories of pain and destruction as being unwanted. In
this article, we consider the largely undertheorized potential that painful pasts can have for …

How can organizations capitalize on core stigma through spectacles? In this paper, we
adopt a performativity perspective to address this question. Specifically, we analyze how an …

This research examines gatekeepers' categorization work to assess and sort audience
members. Using a multi-sited ethnography and interpretivist qualitative lens, we explore how …

With the frequent occurrence of online public opinion events, the problem of product stigma
is becoming increasingly serious. Enterprises must use effective quality information …

Through an inductive field study, we set out to better understand how and why ventures
would embrace a non‐core stigma; this is perplexing given that a majority of stigma literature …