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...

Although the protection of secrets is often vital to the survival of organizations, at other times organizations can benefit by deliberately leaking secrets to outsiders. We explore how and why this is the case. We identify two dimensions of leaks: (1) whether the information in the leak is...