I welcome the opportunity to provide some reflections on Michael Yaziji's paper, "Toward a Theory of Social Risk: Antecedents of Normative Delegitimation." The process of reflection allows me to review some ideas that have been fermenting in my head related to the concepts of legitimacy,...

We integrate theory and findings from the strategic groups and reputation literatures to examine the consequences of cognitive strategic group membership and positioning within strategic groups on the media reputations of firms. We extend past discussions of media reputation to examine...

Drawing from economic and cognitive theories, researchers have argued that firms within an industry tend to cluster together, following similar strategies. Their positioning in strategic groups, in turn, is argued to influence firm actions and firm performance. We extend this research to examine...

We draw from socio-emotional wealth and social identity research to develop a theory on reputational differences among family and non-family firms. We propose that family members identify more strongly with their family firm than non-family members do with either a family or non-family firm....

The resource-based view proposes that reputation is a resource leading to competitive advantage. Past research tested this by using Fortune ratings to measure reputation, but these ratings are theoretically weak. This paper integrates mass communication theory into past research to develop a...

Can we adequately assess corporate reputation? The 'No' side argues that reputation is contextually dependent and lacks a consensus definition. The 'Yes' side argues that adequate does not equal perfect and that existing measures enable answering meaningful questions and making meaningful...