Reputation is the most complex asset of an organization. Despite the call for consistent management of corporate reputation comprehensive approaches to measure and steer a company' s reputation are still in their infancy. Reputation management aims at creating a balance between stakeholder...

Anabel Ternès und Christopher Runge zeigen am Beispiel Banken, dass es sich auszahlt, in eine hohe Reputation zu investieren. Unternehmen mit einem guten Ansehen können höhere Preise verlangen, Kunden gewinnen und binden, die besten Mitarbeiter für sich gewinnen und insbesondere in...

This study investigates the development and sustainability of a firm’s IT capability reputation from an IT executive’s standpoint. Building on institutional theory, we argue that IT executives will try to achieve external legitimacy - i.e., project an image of superior IT capability to...

Concern over an organization's reputation is at a heightened level and has become a top strategic business risk. Reputation creation, enhancement, and protection are critical to an organization's success, yet highly challenging given the wide ranging and somewhat opaque nature of the concept as...

While most strategic group research has focused on performance implications, we consider the relationship between strategic group membership and reputation. Using strategic group identity and domain consensus concepts, we propose strategic groups have different reputations. We find significant...

How do firms repair their reputations after a serious accounting restatement? To answer this question, we review firms' press releases and identify 1,765 reputation-building actions taken by: (1) 94 restating firms in the periods before and after their restatement; and (2) a set of matched...