Mitigating Moral Emotions After Crises (Antonetti et al 2025) | FT50 JBE

English Podcast Start at 00:00:00Bengali Podcast Start at 00:19:38Hindi Podcast Start at 00:26:17🎙️💥 Welcome to Revise and Resubmit! 💥🎙️Where ideas evolve, emotions matter, and every paper gets its moment in the spotlight. I’m your host, and today’s episode is all about what happens after the crisis—when the flames die down, but the moral emotions still burn.🔥😠😷 Ever felt angry, disgusted, or just downright contemptuous about a company’s actions?Well, you’re not alone—and that’s exactly what today’s paper dives into.🧠💼 Titled “Mitigating Moral Emotions After Crises: A Reconceptualization of Organizational Responses,” this powerful conceptual work comes to us from scholars Paolo Antonetti, Carmen Valor, and Branko Božič, published on 1st July 2025 in the Journal of Business Ethics—a prestigious FT50 journal that consistently sets the bar for excellence in business research. 📈✨Published by the ever-reputable Springer Nature, this piece doesn’t just offer answers—it reimagines the entire game of crisis response.📚 Most research on organizational crises? It zeroes in on anger. But this paper widens the lens to include disgust and contempt—three moral emotions with very different psychological roots, and very different solutions.🔎 So how should organizations respond when people are not just angry, but repulsed… or worse, when they believe the company is morally bankrupt?This paper offers a framework that tells leaders how to listen more precisely, and how to speak back more effectively.They argue:🧩 Match the message to the emotion.🔍 Match the focus to the feeling.🧼 Don't just say sorry—clean the stain on your character, if that's what's been tarnished.🏭 From the depths of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster to the future of corporate crisis management, this paper gives us a deeper understanding of what it really takes to repair trust—and legitimacy—when the moral compass starts spinning.So here's what I want to ask you today...🧠💔 When a company fails—not just in action but in ethics—can the right emotional response strategy really rewrite the narrative? Or are some reputations simply too stained to cleanse?🙌 Huge thanks to Paolo Antonetti, Carmen Valor, and Branko Božič for this thoughtful contribution, and to the Journal of Business Ethics and Springer Nature for continuing to advance this crucial field of study.🎧 If you found this episode thought-provoking, hit that subscribe button on Spotify, check out our YouTube channel Weekend Researcher, and catch us on Amazon Prime and Apple Podcasts 🍏🌀💬 Because here at Revise and Resubmit, we don’t just talk about research. We feel it. 👓📄💥ReferenceAntonetti, P., Valor, C. & Božič, B. Mitigating Moral Emotions After Crises: A Reconceptualization of Organizational Responses. J Bus Ethics (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-025-06042-5‌Youtube Channel⁠https://www.youtube.com/@weekendresearcher⁠Support us on Patreonhttps://patreon.com/weekendresearcher