Commercial banks are subject to regulation that restricts their investments. When banks are concerned for their reputation, however, they could self-regulate and invest more efficiently. Hence, a shadow banking that arises to avoid regulation has the potential to improve welfare. Still, reputation concerns depend on future economic prospects and may suddenly disappear, generating a collapse of ...

*Correspondence: Claus Wedekind, Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Biophore, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland e-mail: [email protected] Human cooperation is often based on reputation gained from previous interactions with third parties. Such reputation can be built on generous or punitive actions, and both, one’s own reputation and the reputation of others have been...

Reputation studies have gained attention tremendously as a significant area of research in corporate communication and business-related studies. Universities today realized the importance having solid reputation to attract their stakeholders, mainly students (customers) they are largest stakeholder for survival university. This study aims investigate predicting factors tangible intangible resou...

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Since opening its doors in 1893, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine has built a reputation for excellence unsurpassed by any other medical school in the world.

Recently, a large unregulated ”shadow banking”, based on counterparty relations, flourished and then suddenly collapsed. In the absence of regulation, its existence hinges on confidence about counterparties’ good behavior, and such confidence hinges on counterparties’ reputation concerns. Even when reputation allows for a cheaper alternative to traditional banking – by saving on regulatory cost...

reputation index of Turkish universities through their online impact and effectiveness. Using 16 different web based parameters and employing normalization process of the results, we have ranked websites of Turkish universities in terms of their web presence. This index is first attempt to determine the tools of reputation of Turkish academic websites and would be a basis for further studies to...

Cloud computing is the latest evolution in the field of distributed computing. This advocates the composition of basic distributed web services to form a more complex Second Generation Service encapsulating its complete business workflow. Trust and reputation management have emerged in industry and academia for selecting the best web services available and thus forming the best-in-class composi...

UNMIXED SIGNALS: HOW REPUTATION AND STATUS AFFECT ALLIANCE FORMATION ITHAI STERN,* JANET M. DUKERICH, and EDWARD ZAJAC 1 Management and Organizations Department, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, U.S.A. 2 Management Department, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, U.S.A. 3 Management and Organizations Department, Nort...