Most, if not all, management control tools were formulated for firms employing an industrial value creation logic (i.e., Ford, McDonald’s, and Wal-Mart). We argue that given the growth, both in number and importance, of firms employing a knowledge value creation logic (i.e., Accenture, Goldman...

We look at reputation effects in firms which create value by finding valuable objects, which we label search shops. The paper examines and validates different measures of value creation and reputation in search shops and finds partial support for our hypothesis that higher reputation is...