Liou, Ru-ShiunRao-Nicholson, RekhaShang, Yanyan2023-10-232023-10-232023Liou R-S, Rao-Nicholson R, Shang Y (2023). Stakeholder salience: corporate responses during a public health crisis. Journal of Management & Organization 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1017/jmo.2022.93http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11868/3998Final Published VersionCitation: Liou R-S, Rao-Nicholson R, Shang Y (2023). Stakeholder salience: corporate responses during a public health crisis. Journal of Management & Organization 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1017/jmo.2022.93Prior crisis management research mainly studied the context of accidental and preventable crises which are generally within the organization’s control, while the COVID-19 pandemic presents a public health crisis in which corporations do not have control over the extent of the impacts. Built upon the stakeholder salience framework, we propose and test the hypotheses that are derived from societal stakeholders’ power, legitimacy, and urgent claims during the pandemic and reveal several corporate responses that address multiple stakeholders’ interests, including customers, shareholders, community, suppliers, and employees. Specifically, corporations with a larger number of employees and social media followers tend to adopt more corporate responses that address various stakeholders’ concerns. Further, in highly impacted industries, there is an increased influence of social media followers on customer-related corporate responses as well as a decreased influence of employees on employee-related corporate responses.en-USCorporate social responsibilityCOVID-19 pandemicStakeholder salienceArticle© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press in association with the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- ShareAlike licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the same Creative Commons licence is included and the original work is properly cited. The written permission of Cambridge University Press must be obtained for commercial re-use.https://doi.org/10.1017/jmo.2022.93