STRATEGIC COGNITION AND ISSUE SALIENCE: TOWARD AN EXPLANATION OF FIRM RESPONSIVENESS TO STAKEHOLDER CONCERNS

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Bundy, Jonathan; Shropshire, Christine; Buchholtz, Ann K.
• 署名单位: University System of Georgia; University of Georgia; Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0363-7425
• DOI: 10.5465/amr.2011.0179
• 发表日期: 2013
• 页码: 352-376
• 关键词: ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTITY ORIENTATION; performance; management; responses; identification; managerial; BUSINESS; MODEL; media; Isomorphism

摘要

As a new perspective for understanding firm responsiveness to stakeholder concerns, we propose a strategic cognition view of issue salience that is, the degree to which a stakeholder issue resonates with and is prioritized by management. Specifically, we explain how a firm's cognitive structures of organizational identity and strategic frames use different core logics to influence managerial interpretation of an issue as salient. We then present a typology of firm responsiveness and suggest that firms will respond more substantially to those issues perceived as salient to both cognitive logics and more symbolically to those issues perceived as salient to only one logic. This article fills key gaps in our understanding of how firms manage and respond to stakeholders by focusing on the salience of the issue and incorporating strategic cognition as a key mediating mechanism.