The Stigmatization and Devaluation of Elites Associated with Corporate Failures: A Process Model

By Batia Mishan Wiesenfeld, Kurt Wurthmann, Donald C. Hambrick. 2008

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Organizations Behaving Badly: When Are Discreditable Actions Likely to Damage Organizational Reputation? (2010, background): “First, by explaining outcomes at the organization level, we extend prior research that has examined the impact of discreditable actions on stigmatized individuals within the organization (e.g., Pozner, 2008; Wiesenfeld et al., 2008).”
Unmixed signals: How reputation and status affect alliance formation (2014, background): “They tend to be fired, suffer diminished employment prospects, receive lower pay, and those who are rehired tend to hold lower positions (Cannella, Fraser, and Lee, 1995; Semadeni et al., 2008; Wiesenfeld, Wurthmann, and Hambrick, 2008).”
New Directions in Corporate Governance Research (2008, background): “Fo r pe rs on al u se o nl y, a ll ri gh ts r es er ve d. witnessing an increasing influence from the press, governance watchdog groups, institutional investors, executive search firms, and executive compensation firms (Wiesenfeld et al. 2008).”
How firms respond to financial restatement : CEO successors and external reactions (2014, background): “Removing leaders seen as responsible for financial restatement serves as a straightforward signal of the firm’s intent to deal seriously with the problem (Agrawal, Jaffe, & Karpoff, 1999; Devers et al., 2009; Wiesenfeld et al., 2008).”
Social Discrimination in the Corporate Elite (2013, background): “…of firm leaders among a variety of corporate stakeholders (Chen and Meindl, 1991; Pollock and Rindova, 2003; Pollock, Rindova, and Maggitti, 2008; Wiesenfeld, Wurthmann, and Hambrick, 2008), this study ultimately suggests how demographic minorities who occupy positions of corporate leadership…”
Organizations Gone Wild: The Causes, Processes, and Consequences of Organizational Misconduct (2010, background): “Better networked organizations can rely on their connections to disseminate information that contradicts the stereotyping and attributions central to the process of stigmatization (Wiesenfeld et al., 2008), resulting in fewer consequences for higher-status and more central organizations.”
Founding Teams as Carriers of Competing Logics (2014, background): “Their local reputation could be tarnished if the organization’s condition deteriorates (Sutton and Callahan, 1987; Wiesenfeld, Wurthmann, and Hambrick, 2008).”
Whitened Résumés (2016, background): “Finally, while much research and theorizing have focused on how different evaluators perceive stigmatized individuals (Link and Phelan, 2001; Wiesenfeld, Wurthmann, and Hambrick, 2008), our interviews suggest that stigmatized individuals also vary in the extent to which they experience a given…”
Stigma and business failure: implications for entrepreneurs’ career choices (2014, background): “13 entrepreneurs who subsequently regain legitimacy (Wiesenfeld et al., 2008).”
A General Theory of Organizational Stigma (2009, background): “1988), encouraging a piling on effect that attracts other stakeholders’ attention (Wiesenfeld et al. 2008).”