34 Citations
Blame Game Theory: Scapegoating, Whistleblowing and Discursive Struggles following Accusations of Organizational Misconduct
- 2020
Business, Sociology
Research on organizational misconduct has examined how audiences generate discourses to make sense of behaviour that may transgress the line between right and wrong. However, when organizations are…
Will I Have to Be Reborn? Collective Sensemaking of Stigma among White-Collar Inmates
- 2024
Sociology
We have a limited understanding of how individuals anticipate the experience of stigma, make sense of it as a group, and how such sensemaking trickles down to the individual level, especially for…
Bad apples and sour grapes: How fruit and vegetable wholesalers’ fantasy mediates experienced stigma
- 2024
Sociology, Business
How do organisations that belong to a stigmatised industry manage negative perceptions? We contribute to answering this question by highlighting how organisational members turn external negative…
Standing on the Shoulders of Goffman: Advancing a Relational Research Agenda on Stigma
- 2023
Sociology
Drawing from Goffman’s original observations on stigma and the consequences of interactions between the stigmatized and supportive or stigmatizing audiences, we conduct a 20-year review of the…
Organizational Responses to Institutional Complexity in the Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining Field
- 2025
Environmental Science, Engineering
The diffusion of global issues such as sustainability, human rights, and climate change results in complex challenges for organizations in various fields. Complexity arises due to the need to…
Change, Governance, and Diffusion of Institutional Logics in and Beyond Chinese Contexts
- 2025
Political Science, Business
The institutional logics perspective provides a powerful theoretical lens that emphasizes how meanings and practices are intertwined in relatively enduring configurations that can profoundly shape…
Stop Devaluing My Degree! Stakeholder-Led Stigmatization to Save Business School Status
- 2025
Business, Education
Formation of an academic diaspora: A study of scholars from Turkey in the higher education sector in Britain
- 2025
Sociology, Education
The internationalisation of higher education has revealed the importance of understanding the formation and dynamics of academic diasporas. Most studies focus on cohesive academic diasporas,…
Discursive Struggles and Contested Stigma Extensions: Explaining the Gradual Stigmatization of the U.S. Tobacco Industry
- 2024
Sociology
Despite extensive research on stigma, we still lack a comprehensive understanding of how industry stigmatization progresses when constantly contested by resourceful incumbents. To shed light on this…
Staging the Lie: The Impact of Framing and Content on the Visibility of Fake Business News
- 2024
Business
What drives the visibility of fake business news? We investigate this timely question by analyzing the framing and content of fake news targeting Fortune 500 companies. Our research reveals that fake…