Introducing a spectrum of moral evaluation: integrating organizational stigmatization and moral legitimacy
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Author(s)
Hampel, C
Tracey, Paul
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Audiences frequently change how they evaluate organizations, and these judgments often have a moral basis. For example, audiences may shift their evaluation from stigmatization to legitimacy or vice versa. These radical shifts in audience evaluation can have a major impact on organizations, yet organization theory struggles to account for them. We offer a solution to this problem by proposing a spectrum of moral evaluation that situates key moral judgments relative to each other. Our core argument is that integrating stigmatization and moral legitimacy into a broader spectrum of moral evaluation provides organization theorists with a much-needed toolkit to explore the consequential normative transformations often experienced by contemporary organizations. Specifically, it allows for a graded conception of moral evaluation, connects concepts – stigma and legitimacy – that are often considered in isolation, and offers opportunities for theoretical cross-fertilization.
Date Issued
2019-01-01
Date Acceptance
2017-07-05
Citation
Journal of Management Inquiry, 2019, 28 (1), pp.11-15
ISSN
1056-4926
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Start Page
11
End Page
15
Journal / Book Title
Journal of Management Inquiry
Volume
28
Issue
1
Copyright Statement
© The Author(s) 2018. The final, definitive version of this paper has been published in [citation info] by Sage Publications Ltd. All rights reserved. It is available at: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1056492618790897
Subjects
Social Sciences
Management
Business & Economics
organizational stigmatization
legitimacy
morality
STIGMA
Business & Management
1503 Business and Management
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2018-08-30