If categorical boundaries serve to assist audiences in lumping together like organizations and separating different … ones, then does an organization’s reputation also remain similarly bounded? We conceptualize reputation as an assessment of … an actor’s ability or quality, but in the circumscribed domain of an identified category. We hypothesize that reputation …

indications. Wine yeasts’ manufacturers have been accused of infringing the reputation of registered designations of origin by …

We develop a hedonic pricing model for German quality wine. Quality indicators for 4,141 wines are sensory awards … received at the annual German wine competition and the legally required quality category as well as a set of control variables …

Wine is a product characterized by the existence of both significant differences in quality and asymmetric information …. However, evidence shows that wine markets are populated by high quality wines, as well as lower quality products. In fact, in … wine markets there have emerged responses at three different levels: institutional, collective (provided by a coalition of …

The concept of reputation has been used in every field of economic research, given its capacity to affect the outcome … of all economic and financial transactions. The theoretical debate on reputation is very rich, but the mechanisms of … reputation building have not been explored enough from the empirical viewpoint. In this paper we investigate the determinants of …

focuses on various firm-external social constructions: legitimacy, reputation, and status, and how they impact the emergence …

Status and reputation have long been recognized as important influences in management research and recently much … strategic management studies have identified the different methods through which status and reputation are constructed. While … reputation has been linked with a history of quality, and status has been identified as an externally assigned measure of social …

are worse off. I present a new solution to the collective action problem based on status. I argue that contributions to … collective action increase an individual’s status in the group because contributions create perceptions of high group …-person public goods game, participants reported viewing higher contributors as more group motivated and higher status. Higher …

Functional theories of reputation imply that individuals’ reputations are tied to their history of behavior. However …, indirect evidence suggests that the link between reputation and behavior may be tenuous at best. In three studies we tracked …€™ reputations were linked to their history of behavior, but not strongly. However, the relation between reputation and behavior was …