There is a widely shared perception that Management Information Systems (MIS) research has significantly improved in both quantity and quality over the past decade. Most MIS academics and practitioners have strong opinions about who the leading MIS researchers are and which institutions are on the cutting-edge with respect to MIS research. To a large extent, these opinions are subjective, based...

The importance of knowledge management rises more and more. But besides enterprises, it becomes important for the public administration, too. In the hanseatic city of Rostock a pilot project started, that introduced two knowledge maps as a first basis for a future knowledge management system in several public agencies. These first maps are developed, but not implemented yet. This bachelor thesi...

Abstract This research examines the cover images of two inflight magazines— Ulisse (Alitalia) and Blue Wings (Finnair)—as a method for airlines to manage their impression. Drawing on concept impression management, study focuses visual strategies employ in order shape audience’s perception airlines. The data consists 90 published between January 2016 February 2020. A rhetorical analysis was appl...

Impression management strategy is an important way to cope with the stigma of failed entrepreneurial firms. However, most existing studies only focused on process impression a single strategy. Few have provided systematic theoretical explanation how use different types strategies stigma. To fill this gap, two-path model failure was constructed, based two-component management. In addition, mecha...

Although job design has long been a central topic in the academic literature on organizations, theoretical perspectives on job design are rooted primarily in organizational psychology, and have only recently begun to draw from sociological theory. Moreover, extant sociological perspectives have focused largely on cross-cultural differences in the perception of job characteristics and the effect...

Social network sites like Facebook allow users to engage in selfpresentation through a variety of text-based, visual, and interactive features, and numerous studies have examined the various social and technical strategies Facebook users engage in to manage their online persona. That said, few studies have examined how engagement in these impression management strategies varies across users. Th...

Organizations place a great deal of emphasis on hiring individuals who are a good fit for the organization and the job. Among the many ways that individuals are screened for a job, the employment interview is particularly prevalent and nearly universally used (Macan, 2009; Huffcutt and Culbertson, 2011). This Research Topic is devoted to a construct that plays a critical role in our understandi...

Parental responsibility and blame are central issues in discussions of children’s health. When parents are confronted about their children’s unhealthy lifestyles—as they are by a nutrition expert at the beginning of each episode of an intervention-based reality television show about improving child wellbeing, Honey We’re Killing the Kids—they must negotiate responsibility for their children’s p...

• Moral hypocrisy was exposed both between-subjects and within-subjects. • We investigated whether hypocrites are self-deceptive — do they fool themselves? • People let a fair coin decide monetary allocations only if they could fudge the results. • Hypocrites placed a higher priority on Conformity values. • The results suggest the primacy of impression management concerns over self-deception. a...