Research Projects 

Research currently under investigation explores the following themes. Please click on each theme to read more.

Current projects:

• Chicken or Egg: Exploring the co-evolution of venture capital firm reputation and industry
• Using brain imaging to study trust and reputation in organizations
• How do individuals form and change their perceptions of a firm and to what degree do they take account of factors other than the firm's performance?
• Which types of corporate communications make a difference to share prices, how important is the timing of the release of  this information and are there firm specific reputational effects which lend information more or less credibility?
• Examining the importance of reputation as a signalling mechanism in uncertain markets through the lens of the art market.
• Exploring the relationship between corruption and reputation. 
• The centrality of strategy communications in corporate reputation.
• “Is “face” (reputation) more important to banks from Japan
  than other countries?
• The role of strategy communications in surviving stock market crises
• The role of CSR in determining the future behaviour of a company and whether this role better equips a company to manage reputational risk.
• To what extent a company can manage its global reputation.
• Can an historical perspective help us understand the formation of corporate reputation?
• The long-run evolution of the investment banking syndicate and its reputation implications.
• How far can consumers hold firms accountable for the supply chain and how far the firms themselves can understand the provenance of what they procure.
• The most efficient means of redeeming a lost reputation.
• How individuals translate their perceptions and evaluations of companies into both attitudes and behaviours.
• The role of business journalists in creating and influencing corporate reputation.

Completed projects:

• Major programme failure and reputational damage limitation.
• The efficacy of reputational sanctions as means of enforcing corporate regulation.