Landmines for Entrepreneurs with Olivier Wenker, MD, MBA, DEAAPlatform Houston
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5. • Benefit of the doubt/credibility
• More attractive for joint ventures
• Perceived as a less risky investment
• Greater market dominance
• Higher accounting performance
• Can protect you when bad things happen
A good reputation can be useful...
6. • Good reputations can also hurt:
– Targeting by activists
– Higher expectations
• Downsizing hurts reputation, even when analysts
suggest it
• People see and focus on different things
• Rankings recreate rankings
7. • Most work has been on “good” reputations
• Most work on Fortune’s Most Admired Companies
list
• A lot of work is theoretical
8. • Anticipatory impression management can help
• Two different types of reputations...
– Reputations may grow and decline in different
ways
– Different tactics might help for different types
of reputations
9. • Cross-level effects
• Bad reputations
• Unintended consequences
• Audience effects
• Cognitive and psychological effects
• Reputation versus reality
10. • Industry, firm, executives
• Coherence across levels
Executives
Firm
Industry
12. • Damaging or constraining nature of good
• Beneficial or enabling nature of bad
13. • Coherence vs. disagreement within
and across audiences
• Clusters?
• Power and politics
14. • Associations between cues and evaluations
• Cognitive evaluations vs. emotional reactions?
15. • When are reputations tightly coupled with reality?
• When are reputations very different from reality?
• What can be done to decrease or increase this
gap?
• Does reputation matter in all situations?
• How much do reputations matter?
• How much should you spend to improve a
reputation?