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Who calls it? Actors and accounts in the social construction of organizational moral failure

dc.contributor.authorShadnam, Masoud
dc.contributor.authorCrane, Andrew
dc.contributor.authorLawrence, Thomas B.
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-14
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-31T01:44:17Z
dc.date.available2022-05-31T01:44:17Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractIn recent years, research on morality in organizational life has begun to examine how organizational conduct comes to be socially constructed as having failed to comply with a community’s accepted morals. Researchers in this stream of research, however, have paid little attention to identifying and theorizing the key actors involved in these social construction processes and the types of accounts they construct. In this paper, we explore a set of key structural and cultural dimensions of apparent noncompliance that enable us to distinguish between four categories of actors who engage in constructing the label of moral failure: dominant insiders, watchdog organizations, professional members, and publics. The analysis further clarifies which category of actor is more likely to succeed in constructing the label of moral failure under which circumstances, and what accounts they are likely to use, namely scapegoating, prototyping, shaming, and protesting.
dc.description.urihttps://library.macewan.ca/full-record/bth/145259850
dc.identifier.citationShadnam, M., Crane, A., & Lawrence, T. B. 2020. Who calls it? Actors and accounts in the social construction of organizational moral failure. Journal of Business Ethics, 165: 699–717. DOI: 10.1007/s10551-018-4089-6
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-018-4089-6
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14078/2418
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved
dc.subjectaccount
dc.subjectactor
dc.subjectlabel
dc.subjectlegitimacy
dc.subjectmoral failure
dc.subjectmorality
dc.subjectsocial construction
dc.subjectsurveillance
dc.titleWho calls it? Actors and accounts in the social construction of organizational moral failureen
dc.typeArticle

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