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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Jourdan, Julien

Titel

Scandal as Moral Interaction: Towards A New Perspective on the Publicization of Organizational Misconduct

Ist Teil von

• Research in the sociology of organizations, 2023, Vol.84, p.73-93

Ort / Verlag

Bingley: Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

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Sociological Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Scandals regularly sweep through organizational fields: they wreak havoc in markets, vaporize billions of dollars in firm value, bring down giant corporations, get CEOs fired, alter the evolution of technologies, and trigger major changes in society. In spite of their significance for organizational life, scandals have received remarkably limited attention in management research. I build on the social sciences’ sparse but growing stream of research on scandals to explore the concept beyond its usual representation as a discrete event. I propose that an organizational scandal may be understood as an interactional process associated with the disclosure of alleged organizational misconduct that involves: a public struggle between alleged perpetrators and social control agents over the framing of organizational misconduct; moralizing by audience members; collective effervescence at the societal level; and the potential rewriting of the moral rules applicable to organizations and their members.