Moral Salience and the Role of Goodwill in Firm-Stakeholder Trust Repair
Re-establishing trust presents a complex challenge for a firm after it commits corporate misconduct. We introduce a new construct, moral salience, which we define as the extent to which the firm’s behavior is morally noticeable to the stakeholder. Moral salience is a function of both the moral inten...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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2016
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Business ethics quarterly
Year: 2016, Volume: 26, Issue: 2, Pages: 181-199 |
Further subjects: | B
goodwill
B moral salience B firm misconduct B psychological contracts B Trust B Moral Intensity |
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Summary: | Re-establishing trust presents a complex challenge for a firm after it commits corporate misconduct. We introduce a new construct, moral salience, which we define as the extent to which the firm’s behavior is morally noticeable to the stakeholder. Moral salience is a function of both the moral intensity of the firm’s behavior and the relational intensity of the firm-stakeholder psychological contract. We apply this moral salience construct to firm misconduct to develop a model of trust repair that is based on goodwill, and moderated by the firm’s stakeholder culture. |
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ISSN: | 2153-3326 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Business ethics quarterly
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/beq.2016.27 |