BP’s use of posture to respond to the Deepwater Horizon crisis

This paper focuses on the posture the oil company BP adopted when faced with a legitimacy crisis during one of the worst environmental disasters in history. Against a backdrop of a discussion of the rhetorical aspects of image repair discourse and organisational legitimacy, Hearit’s strategy of corp...

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Main Authors: Vida L. Goosen-Botes, Grant Samkin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AOSIS 2013-07-01
Series:Journal of Economic and Financial Sciences
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Online Access:https://jefjournal.org.za/index.php/jef/article/view/265