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Corporate Scandals and Spoiled Identities: How Organizations Shift Stigma to Employees

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2015

Danielle E. Warren
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I apply stigma-management strategies to corporate scandals and expand on past research by (a) describing a particular type of stigma management strategy that involves accepting responsibility while denying it, (b) delineating types of stigma that occur in scandals (demographic versus character), and (c) considering the moral implications of shifting stigmas that arise from scandals. By emphasizing the distinction between character and demographic stigma, I make progress in evaluating the moral implications of shifting different types of stigma.

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Special Section on Accountability
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Business Ethics Quarterly , Volume 17 , Issue 3 , July 2007 , pp. 477 - 496
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Copyright © Business Ethics Quarterly 2007

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