Document Type

Report

Key Takeaways

CEO gender and type of apology communicated about product failures can impact consumer perceptions. • When female CEOs communicate full responsibility for a product failure, consumers have the highest future purchase intentions. • Female CEOs who are perceived as more competent and independent had stakeholder responses less tied to the type of apology.

Publication Date

2021

Source

Cowen, A. P., & Montgomery, N. V. (2020). To be or not to be sorry? How CEO gender impacts the effectiveness of organizational apologies. Journal of Applied Psychology, 105(2), 196.

Disciplines

Business

Copyright

© 2021, University of South Carolina

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Business Commons

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