Listening to birdsong: Impression management of VW on Twitter during Dieselgate
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in: Management Studies, Jahrgang 10, Nr. 3, 2020, S. 64-78.
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T1 - Listening to birdsong: Impression management of VW on Twitter during Dieselgate
AU - Bouzzine, Yassin Denis
AU - Steen, Hendrik
AU - Trautberg, Mario
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - In this study, we examine the impression management of Volkswagen (VW) for dealing with the diesel emissions scandal (Dieselgate) on Twitter in the context of legitimacy theory. Therefore, we identified 13 tweets from the VW US Twitter account, which are directly or indirectly meant to resolve the crisis. Thereby, respective crisis tweets followed different impression management strategies, which have been classified by us according to prevailing impression management literature. To evaluate the effectiveness of VW’s crisis management strategies, we conduct frequency analysis for a first intuition and sentiment analysis, based on user replies, to evaluate different crisis management strategies upon the induced user emotions. Exemplary user responses are provided to give insights into the sentiments. Our findings illustrate that different strategies imply major differences in positivity and negativity, allowing us to derive recommendations for adequate online crisis management.
AB - In this study, we examine the impression management of Volkswagen (VW) for dealing with the diesel emissions scandal (Dieselgate) on Twitter in the context of legitimacy theory. Therefore, we identified 13 tweets from the VW US Twitter account, which are directly or indirectly meant to resolve the crisis. Thereby, respective crisis tweets followed different impression management strategies, which have been classified by us according to prevailing impression management literature. To evaluate the effectiveness of VW’s crisis management strategies, we conduct frequency analysis for a first intuition and sentiment analysis, based on user replies, to evaluate different crisis management strategies upon the induced user emotions. Exemplary user responses are provided to give insights into the sentiments. Our findings illustrate that different strategies imply major differences in positivity and negativity, allowing us to derive recommendations for adequate online crisis management.
KW - Management studies
KW - Impression Management
KW - Legitimacy
KW - VW
KW - dieselgate
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 10
SP - 64
EP - 78
JO - Management Studies
JF - Management Studies
SN - 2699-1187
IS - 3
ER -