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CALL FOR PAPERS AND REVIEWERS
Corporate Reputation Review
Special Issue:
BEYOND CORPORATE REPUTATION:
MANAGING REPUTATIONAL INTERDEPENDENCE
Deadline for submissions: September 1, 2006
Guest Editors:
Michael L. Barnett, University of South Florida (
mbarnett@coba.usf.edu)
Andrew J. Hoffman, University of Michigan (
ajhoff@bus.umich.edu)
As may seem obvious or even tautological, corporate reputation research has
overwhelmingly concerned itself with the efforts of managers to influence
perceptions of the unique characteristics of their corporations. In
bounding reputation research in this way, though, we actually overlook
important determinants of corporate reputation. A corporation???s reputation
is a function of perceptions of its unique attributes, but it is also a
function of perceptions of the common attributes of the industry or other
groups of which it is a part. For example, all chemical firms suffered
reputational (and market) losses following the 1984 poison gas leak at the
facilities of a single chemical plant owned by Union Carbide.
The notion that a firm???s performance is dependent upon the characteristics
of a larger collective to which it belongs is not new. The roots of
strategic management are in industrial-organization economics, which notes
that industry characteristics are a substantial determinant of the
financial performance of all members of the industry. Ecological
perspectives in organizational theory have long noted that environmental
selection mechanisms act on populations, not individual firms. The
widespread use of trade associations in industry would seem to indicate
that managers have long been aware of the need to manage the attributes of
their collectives. It is time for reputation research to catch up.
In this special issue, we seek papers that demonstrate the existence of
reputation at the collective level, illustrate its dynamics, outline
specific instances of how it is managed, and link its management to the
performance and survival of both corporations and collectives. We
encourage submissions from both academics and practitioners. Papers may
build or test theory, but all papers must contain rich qualitative or
quantitative data.
Manuscripts should comply with Corporation Reputation Review???s style and
format guide (http://www.palgrave-journals.com/crr/instructions.html) and
be submitted electronically as a Word or rich text format attachment to
mbarnett@coba.usf.edu. We encourage contributors to discuss ideas with
either guest editor prior to submission. All submissions will undergo
double-blind peer review. All submitting authors will be placed in a pool
of potential reviewers; others who wish to volunteer as reviewers, please
send an e-mail to
mbarnett@coba.usf.edu.
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