Moral Salience and the Role of Goodwill in Firm-Stakeholder Trust Repair

Re-establishing trust presents a complex challenge for a firm after it commits corporate misconduct. We introduce a new construct, moral salience, which we define as the extent to which the firm’s behavior is morally noticeable to the stakeholder. Moral salience is a function of both the moral inten...

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Authors: Brown, Jill A. (Author) ; Buchholtz, Ann K. (Author) ; Dunn, Paul (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2016
In: Business ethics quarterly
Year: 2016, Volume: 26, Issue: 2, Pages: 181-199
Further subjects:B goodwill
B moral salience
B firm misconduct
B psychological contracts
B Trust
B Moral Intensity
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Summary:Re-establishing trust presents a complex challenge for a firm after it commits corporate misconduct. We introduce a new construct, moral salience, which we define as the extent to which the firm’s behavior is morally noticeable to the stakeholder. Moral salience is a function of both the moral intensity of the firm’s behavior and the relational intensity of the firm-stakeholder psychological contract. We apply this moral salience construct to firm misconduct to develop a model of trust repair that is based on goodwill, and moderated by the firm’s stakeholder culture.
ISSN:2153-3326
Contains:Enthalten in: Business ethics quarterly
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/beq.2016.27