In this paper, we examine how categorization is resisted. We analyze the way actors draw on cultural repertoires to … categorization. Our results show that in response to unwanted change, incumbent firms try to create incommensurability with their own …-order sets of values. Our main contribution lies in the article's focus on the way powerful actors resist categorization …

I develop a simple dynamic model of reputation-based transactions between a buyer in one country and a supplier in … stricter standard affects the supply of quality goods and indirectly through reputation. I refer to the former effect as the … regulation effect, and to the latter as the reputation effect. I show that, whereas most of the empirical literature has so far …

. These equilibria share some features with the ones of multi-sided reputation models. …

tools to achieve this goal. A rereading of Kreps' model of reputation sheds light on its structural dimension and …

enjoy high reputation, or who are similar to them. Our simulations test which criterion –or which combination of criteria …

providing accurate research when both ethical and reputational concerns matter. First, we show that reputation picks up ability … and thus serves as a sorting device: when analysts have a relatively low reputation for providing research quality (below … reputation, full financial (performance based) incentives contracts offer a substantial reward for their contribution to the firm …