Z. Ouyang
Crisis spillover of corporate environmental misconducts: The roles of perceived similarity, familiarity, and corporate environmental responsibility in determining the impact on oppositional behavioral intention
Ouyang, Z.; Yao, N.; Hu, X.
Authors
N. Yao
X. Hu
Abstract
Negative impact of a firm's environmental misconduct can spread to other firms under the same category due to stakeholders' categorization. Such problem implies a sociocognitive process that has yet to be explored. Therefore, this study extends the current literature by exploring how interfirm similarity affects the spillover effects through stakeholders' engagement. We propose that interfirm similarity can be perceived by stakeholders as a categorization standard, which can lead to their opposition to other firms. Spillover of misconduct is caused by the decreasing stakeholders' trust, wherein the negative effect is contingent upon stakeholders' perceptions. A questionnaire study is conducted to investigate how people resist an innocent firm in China when a chemistry firm experienced an explosion accident. Our findings confirm that interfirm similarity increases stakeholders' opposition to the innocent firm by decreasing their trust. However, the negative effect is alleviated when the innocent firm is perceived as highly environmentally responsible. Our work contributes to the crisis spillover literature and carries important implications for the management of innocent firms that may lose from an industry peer's misconduct.
Citation
Ouyang, Z., Yao, N., & Hu, X. (2020). Crisis spillover of corporate environmental misconducts: The roles of perceived similarity, familiarity, and corporate environmental responsibility in determining the impact on oppositional behavioral intention. Business Strategy and the Environment, 29(4), 1797-1808. https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.2474
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jan 21, 2020 |
Online Publication Date | Feb 3, 2020 |
Publication Date | May 31, 2020 |
Deposit Date | Feb 20, 2020 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 28, 2024 |
Journal | Business Strategy and the Environment |
Print ISSN | 0964-4733 |
Publisher | ERP Environment |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 29 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 1797-1808 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.2474 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1269876 |
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This is the accepted version of the following article: Ouyang, Z., Yao, N. & Hu, X. (2020). Crisis spillover of corporate environmental misconducts: The roles of perceived similarity, familiarity, and corporate environmental responsibility in determining the impact on oppositional behavioral intention. Business Strategy and the Environment 29(4): 1797-1808 which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.2474. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.
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