From Texas City to Exxon Valdez

Author(s):  
John Harrald ◽  
Hugh Stephens
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2013 ◽  
pp. 35-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanna Michelon

The aim of this paper is to study if and how impression management varies during different phases of the legitimation process, in particular during the legitimacy building and legitimacy repairing phases (Suchman, 1995). We aim at understanding whether and how the disclosure tone adopted by a company in the two different moments is diverse and thus functional to the intrinsic objective of the each phase. The empirical analysis focuses on the case of British Petroleum Plc. We investigated the impression management practices undertaken by the company both during the preparation of the rebranding operation, i.e. a situation in which the company is trying to build legitimacy; and during the happenings of two legitimacy crises, like the explosion of the refinery in Texas City and the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The evidence appears in line with the theoretical prediction of legitimacy theory. Results show that while the company tends to privilege image enhancement techniques during the legitimacy-building phase, it uses more obfuscation techniques when managing a legitimacy-repairing process. Moreover, the analysis suggests that the company makes more extensive use of impression management techniques in the disclosures addressed to shareholders, investors and other market operators than in the disclosures addressed to the wide range of other stakeholders.


2000 ◽  
Vol 40 (12) ◽  
pp. 1132-1138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Taylor ◽  
Lawrence K Duffy ◽  
R Terry Bowyer ◽  
Gail M Blundell

2009 ◽  
Vol 63 (10) ◽  
pp. 792-798 ◽  
Author(s):  
M K Peek ◽  
M P Cutchin ◽  
D Freeman ◽  
R P Stowe ◽  
J S Goodwin

2008 ◽  
Vol 42 (24) ◽  
pp. 9210-9216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul D. Boehm ◽  
David. S. Page ◽  
John S. Brown ◽  
Jerry M. Neff ◽  
James R. Bragg ◽  
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PEDIATRICS ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 88 (3) ◽  
pp. 661-661
Author(s):  
J. F. L.

ANCHORAGE, April 20—Sea otters rescued from waters fouled by the Exxon Valdez oil spill fared poorly after their return to the wild last fall, and scientists working under Government contract say at least half may have perished over the winter. Nearly 900 dead otters were found after the tanker spilled almost 11 million gallons of crude oil in March 1989. An additional 360 were netted alive and brought to rehabilitation centers at Valdez, Seward, Homer and Kodiak. About 200 were later returned to Prince William Sound but some scientists say that as many as half may have perished and that the rehabilitation effort has been largely futile... The withholding of scientific information on the spill for legal reasons by all the parties is becoming a major source of controversy as research projects begin to generate at least preliminary data.


1967 ◽  
Vol 93 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-179
Author(s):  
Wayne M. Murphy ◽  
Charles W. Geelan
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