The Authenticity of Purpose Claims: Firm Capacity and Job Seeker Responses to Recruitment Efforts

The authors thank, for their valuable comments and suggestions, Lamar Pierce (department editor), the anonymous associate editor, and three anonymous reviewers. The authors are also thankful to seminar participants at Harvard Business School, HEC-Paris, BYU Marriott School, and ESMT Berlin; the Carnegie Mellon University–University of Pittsburgh Organizational Theory and Strategy Research Workshop; and attendees at the 2024 ISOI-HEC Purpose Conference, 2023 People and Organizations Conference, 2023 Academy of Management Meeting, 2022 Early-Career Sustainable Operations Management Workshop, MSOM 2022 Conference, and 2021 Social Entrepreneurship Conference. Finally, the authors thank the University of Pittsburgh Center for Sustainable Business for financial support. León Valdés and Trevor Young-Hyman share first authorship and contributed equally to this work.