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dc.contributor.authorSharman, JC
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T15:21:03Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T15:21:03Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.date.modified2009-10-20T22:13:31Z
dc.identifier.issn0032-3217
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/j.1467-9248.2007.00643.x
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/18475
dc.description.abstractThis article argues for a new and broader understanding of reputation as a generally shared belief concerning a referent's character or nature, based on a range of information, associations and social cues. This is in place of the conventional rationalist definition of this concept as the degree to which an actor reliably upholds its commitments, based on a record of past behaviour. A brief literature review shows that this concept is crucial in underpinning a wide range of work in political science and economics premised on strategic interaction. The difference between a rationalist and constructivist understanding of reputation hinges on three points. Firstly, reputation is argued to be a relational concept rather than a property concept. Secondly, reputation is a social fact with an emergent, intersubjective quality, not just a collection of individual beliefs. Thirdly, rather than being an inductively derived objective record of past behaviour, reputation is based on associations, feelings and social cues. The last section of the article applies this broader conceptual understanding to two empirical examples: the importance of international organisations' reputation for their influence over policy-makers, and the way in which small states are classified as tax havens by a reputation test.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherBlackwell
dc.publisher.placeUniversity of Sheffield
dc.publisher.urihttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-9248.2007.00643.x
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom20
dc.relation.ispartofpageto37
dc.relation.ispartofjournalPolitical Studies
dc.relation.ispartofvolume55
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPolitical science
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4408
dc.titleRationalist and Constructivist Perspectives on Reputation
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyGriffith Business School, School of Government and International Relations
gro.date.issued2007
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorSharman, Jason C.


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