Reputational risk as a logic of organizing in late modernity

Organization Studies

Volumn 30, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 301-324

  Power, Michael ^a   Scheytt, Tobias ^b   Soin, Kim ^c   Sahlin, Kerstin ^d,e  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b HELMUT SCHMIDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e London School of Economics and Political Science ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

Late modernity; Ranking; Regulation; Reputational risk; Risk management; University

Indexed keywords

EID: 61849123796     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840608101482     Document Type: Article

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