![]() ![]() Tedeschi and Riess thought that impression management consists of any behavior by a person that has the purpose of controlling or manipulating the attributions and impression formed of that person by others. Schlenker defined it as the conscious or unconscious attempt to control images that are projected in real or imagined social interactions. While there are still some other authors have different definitions on impression management. Goffman first introduced the concept of impression management as “The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life”, suggesting that individuals have the objective to achieve congruence between their image and the image that is necessary for the desired goals. Impression management originates from social psychology, which focused on behavior of individuals mainly. Secondly, this paper wants to give appropriate suggestions to the corporate stakeholders such as the firms, investors and the regulators in order to let them fully understand the corporate information disclosure. ![]() ![]() We want to give the researchers a general idea about impression management studies in corporate information release and draw brief comments on previous studies. Firstly, this paper is going to make a review on previous studies in impression management related to corporate information release. It is because of the significant of the corporate information and the impression management technics in corporate information release. Ĭorporate information is crucial to the investors, governments as well as the publics. Additionally, some experimental methods are used to investigate the effect of impression management on the investors’ and managers’ prediction and desiccation making. Prior researches on the effectiveness of impression management focus on the influence of impression on the stock price. The impression management has been applied to explain the reactions of firms facing legitimacy threats and to account for directors’ self-serving way of explaining changes in firms’ performance in the annual reports. The existing studies focus on the motivation and effect of impression management in information release especially in the annual reports. These researches try to find out the impression management applied in not only the corporate financial information release - but also the corporate non-financial information release. There have been lots of empirical studies which focus on the relationship between the corporate information disclosure and the impression management. Impression management can be viewed as a technique that individuals and organizations adopt as an attempt to control the impression that individuals or organizations. While, recent years, more and more researches had done to investigate the impression management in the corporate information. It was first introduced by Goffman in 1959. The concept of impression management has its origin in the social psychology and was originally focused on behavior of individuals. Other work has investigated how easy it is to mismanage an impression, such as when “humble bragging” and giving “backhanded compliments.Received accepted 12 June 2016 published 15 June 2016 A typical episode of impression management occurs when an actor performs an act in the hope of influencing targets in a certain way, and scholarly work has noted the importance of the target in this process since the target is not only the audience who judges the actors’ performances but also the critic who provides the actors with feedback that can be used in subsequent performances. Virtually any behavior can be used for impression management purposes, and the desired outcomes range from positive, when the behaviors are intended to be seen in a favorable light, to negative, when the behaviors are intended to be seen in an unfavorable light.Īlthough impression management has been relatively free of controversy as a scholarly topic, some disagreements have formed around the ethics of managing impressions, how to best measure impression management, and whether impression management explains some of the more venerable topics in social science such as prosocial behavior, cognitive dissonance, and moral judgment. Since the 1950s scholars across multiple disciplines of social science have noted the importance of impression management and have developed key theoretical interpretations and taxonomies of how, why, and for whom impression management occurs and whether it is likely to have its intended effect. Most of the important outcomes in life, including friends, romantic partners, job opportunities, and happiness, are contingent on how one is perceived in social situations. Impression management is defined as controlling how one is seen by others. ![]()
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