New frontiers of the reputation-performance relationship: Insights from multiple theories

Journal of Management

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 620-632

  Bergh, Donald D ^a   Ketchen Jr , David J ^b   Boyd, Brian K ^c   Bergh, Julianne ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Reputation; Resource based view; Signaling theory; Social status; Transaction cost economics

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950129838     PISSN: 01492063     EISSN: 15571211     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0149206309355320     Document Type: Article

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