The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Reputation

Michael L. Barnett (PhD, New York University) is Professor of Strategy and Head of the Strategy, Entrepreneurship, and International Business (SEIB) Group at the University of Oxford's Saïd Business School. He is also Fellow in Management at St. Anne's College, University of Oxford. Mike has published extensively on corporate reputation and his article on industry self-regulation and shared reputation was selected as the Academy of Management Journal's Best Paper of 2008, and his article on the financial payoffs to corporate social responsibility was selected by the International Association for Business and Society as the Best Article of 2006. Mike serves on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Perspectives, Business & Society, and Long Range Planning.Timothy G. Pollock (PhD University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) is Professor Management in the Smeal College of Business, Pennsylvania State University. He is Associate Editor of the Academy of Management Journal, and is a member, or has been a member, of the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Business Venturing, Organization Science and Strategic Organization. He is an International Research Fellow of the Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation. His research has won the INFORMS/Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition, the Lou Pondy Award from the Organization and Management Theory Division of the Academy of Management, the 2009 IDEA Thought Leader Award from the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management for the best recent entrepreneurship research, and the Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation Best Published Paper Award for 2010.

• 1. Charting the Landscape of Corporate Reputation ; 2. Show Me The Money: A Multi-Dimensional Perspective on Reputation as an Intangible Asset. ; 3. Keeping Score: The Challenges of Measuring Corporate Reputation ; 4. What Does it Mean to be Green: The Emergence of New Criteria for Assessing Corporate Reputation? ; 5. The Building Blocks of Corporate Reputation: Definitions, Antecedents, Consequences. ; 6. A Survey of the Economic Theory of Reputation: its Logic and Limits ; 7. Meeting Expectations: a Role-Theoretic Perspective on Reputation ; 8. It Ain't What You Do, it's Who You Do it with: Distinguishing Reputation and Status. ; 9. An Identity-Based View of Reputation, Image, and Legitimacy: Clarifications and Distinctions Among Related Constructs ; 10. On Being Bad: Why Stigma is Not the Same as a Bad Reputation ; 11. Untangling Executive Reputation and Corporate Reputation: Who Made Who? ; 12. Waving the Flag: the Influence of Country of Origin on Corporate Reputation ; 13. Corporate Reputation and Regulation in Historical Perspective ; 14. Industry Self-Regulation as a Solution to the Reputation Commons Problem: the Case of the New York Clearing House Association ; 15. How Regulatory Institutions Influence Corporate Reputations: a Cross-Country Comparative Approach ; 16. How Reputation Regulates Regulators: Illustrations from the Regulation of Retail Finance ; 17. A Labor of Love? Understanding the Influence of Corporate Reputation in the Labor Market ; 18. Does Reputation Work to Discipline Corporate Misconduct? ; 19. From the Ground Up: Building Young Firms Reputations ; 20. Strategic Disclosure: Strategy as a Form of Reputation Management ; 21. Managing Corporate Reputation through Corporate Branding ; 22. After the Collapse: a Behavioral Theory of Reputation Repair ; 23. A Framework for Reputation Management Over the Course of Evolving Controversies

All in all, Barnett amd Pollock succeed in pulling together a wide-ranging literature and making it more systematic and accessible. Rather than forging new paths, the chapters deepen, clarify, and extend existing paths. Administrative Science Quarterly