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A Burden of Responsibility: The Role of Social Approval at the Onset of a Crisis
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We extend research on social evaluations and crisis management by explicating the sociocognitive mechanisms that influence how an organization and its external evaluators perceive and respond to the onset of a crisis. Specifically, we highlight the role of social approval—evaluators’ general affinity toward an organization—not only as a critical outcome of crisis management but also as an important antecedent. We first identify the distinct aspects of social approval and explain why it is an important perception in a crisis context. We then detail how managers attempt to limit the probability and magnitude of social approval loss when responding to a crisis, and how an organization’s existing endowment of social approval affects this decision. We theorize that social approval will serve as either a buffer or a burden in influencing evaluators’ crisis sensemaking and attributions. As a result, we argue, organizations endowed with higher and lower levels of social approval may be motivated to take less responsibility at the onset of a crisis than has been previously theorized. We conclude with a discussion of the broader managerial and social implications of our theory and how it expands our understanding of the crisis management process.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Bundy, J., & Pfarrer, M. D.
- Venue
- Academy of Management Review
- Publisher
- Academy of Management
- Published
- 2015-07
- Volume
- 40
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 345-369
- ISSN
- 0363-7425 (ISSN-L)
- 1930-3807
- OpenAlex
- W1984016442
- Cited by
- 461
- References
- 18
- FWCI
- 38.42
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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