...Silvia Solimene; Nathalie Colasanti; Carmela Gulluscio; Teresa Turzo Purpose The article investigates how corporate legitimacy operates as the motivational substructure of impression management (IM) in post-crisis communication. It inspects how organizations try to re-create legitimacy after...

... to understand how presentational styles exhibited in online communication induce immediate audience responses and empirically test the effectiveness of reactive impression management tactics. Design/methodology/approach The authors analyze presentational styles using MP3 files containing executive...

...Xin Liu; Guclu Atinc Purpose Drawing on the literature on CEO succession research and impression management, the present study examines how the selection of CEO successors affects their motivation to initiate postsuccession strategic change. Based on the perspective of reference-dependence...

...Mark Washburn; Kenji Klein Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop theory regarding reputation and legitimacy signaling by organizations in contested emerging fields characterized by category ambiguity. Because impression management becomes increasingly important as category boundaries...