Purpose: This article explores how employees can perceive and be impacted by the fakeness of their company slogans. Design/methodology/approach: This conceptual study draws on the established literature on company slogans, employee audiences, and fake news to create a framework through which to...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore in depth the mechanisms that organizations use to keep their innovations secret. This paper examines how, when and why secrecy appropriation mechanisms (SAMs) can enable innovators to appropriate value from their innovations....