Corporate Reputation and Competitiveness

This book presents the case for reputation as a strategic tool for organizations in the 21st century. As well as a review of current thinking on how reputation is managed, the text contains a unique approach to reputation measurement and management, the Reputation Chain. The authors' approach has been tried and tested in a number of organizations. The authors demonstrate how improving reputation, merely by learning more about what a company is already doing, has been proven to increase sales growth at five percent. US companies examined include Coke, IBM, Intel, McDonalds, Fortune and Enron.

Part 1: Reputation as a Strategic Approach  1. A Brief History of Strategic Thinking 2. The Traditional Way of Managing Reputation 3. The Reputation Paradigm 4. The Company as a Brand 5. Defending a Reputation Part 2: Managing Reputation by Managing Corporate Personality 6. Measuring Reputation: The Corporate Personality Scale  7. The Management of Image of Identity  8. Harmonizing Image and Identity  9. Reputation and Business Performance 10. Challenges in Reputation Management