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Studies have shown that corporate social performance (CSP) is an antecedent of corporate reputation, acting as a signal that affects stakeholders' perceptions and expectations about a firm's future behavior. However, the perceptions, expectations, and interests of stakeholders may be affected by external factors, such as national culture, which shapes their beliefs about what role companies play in society. Drawing on institutional theory and Hofstede's cultural dimensions, we analyze how stakeholders' national culture moderates the relationship between CSP and corporate reputation. The results of the analysis of an international sample for the period 2010 to 2016 show that low individualism (i.e., collectivism), low masculinity (i.e., femininity), low power distance, and low uncertainty avoidance intensify the positive relationship between CSP and corporate reputation. JEL CLASSIFICATION: M14, L14 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

City reputation is a valuable intangible asset that boosts the attractiveness of a city in terms of resources, events, tourism, or as a place of residence. Since city sustainability is understood as the framework of a city's economic activities conducted within the carrying capacity of the local environment to the benefit of the local population, it may help to satisfy city stakeholders' expectations over time; in other words, to enhance city reputation. Our results from Tobit analyses, based on an international sample of 62 cities between 2015 and 2018, confirm that city sustainability is a determinant of city reputation. Specifically, this study shows that the level of environmental, social, and economic sustainability affects positively city reputation. Our results are of interest to local authorities, as they indicate the relevance of efforts to consolidate city sustainability in order to build a good city reputation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To authenticate to the full-text of this article, please visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8551.2008.00625.x Byline: Juan Bautista Delgado-Garcia (1), Juan Manuel de la Fuente-Sabate (1), Esther de Quevedo-Puente (1) Abstract: Except for some recent survey and experimental studies, strategic management research has tended to neglect the influence of emotions on managers' strategic choices. This paper analyses the influence of the stable, long-term emotional traits of CEOs on an actual business outcome: risk taking. The hypotheses are tested on a sample of 51 Spanish banks and savings banks. Our results show that CEO affective traits influence banks' risk taking. Specifically, our analyses show that managers' negative affective traits are related to lower risk taking as reflected in a lower variability in performance, a lower level of credit risk and a less risky composition of the loan portfolios of the banks they manage. Positive affective traits do not seem to influence the level of risk. These findings partially support 'affect congruency and generalization' arguments, and show the need to consider the role of affects when analysing CEOs' strategic choices. Author Affiliation: (1)Universidad de Burgos, Facultad de CC.EE. y Empresariales, C/Los Parralillos, s/n, 09001 Burgos, SpainEmail:jbdelgado@ubu.es;jmfuente@ubu.es;equev@ubu.es

Corporate social performance (CSP) has received a particularly high share of attention as one of the main determinants of corporate reputation. However, few studies have tested the extent to which the relationship between CSP and corporate reputation may be affected by industry, country, or other context‐related variables. Besides, some conceptual thinking suggests that the impact of CSP on corporate reputation may vary according to the level of consistency of a firm's behaviors. However, this view has not been empirically addressed. For this reason, the main objective of this study is to explore the impact of consistency in CSP management on corporate reputation. Specifically, we analyze both the effect of CSP internal consistency (or consistency between environmental and social performance) and CSP consistency over time on corporate reputation. The results based on data from an international sample of 133 companies for the period 2011 to 2016, support either CSP internal consistency or CSP consistency over time (positive increment of CSP over time) positively affecting corporate reputation. The results also confirm the moderation effect of CSP internal consistency on the relationship between CSP and corporate reputation. These results reveal that consistency in social responsibility management helps a firm to consolidate its corporate reputation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Studies have found that good corporate reputation benefits firm outcomes. Our research tests whether these benefits also hold for city reputation. We use a sample of 76 Spanish cities to analyse the effect of city reputation on city performance as measured by city economic activities, unemployment rates and net migration rates. After controlling for endogeneity and spatial autocorrelation, we find that good city reputation is positively associated with economic activities and negatively with unemployment, but not related to net migration. Our results may be of interest to local authorities, as they indicate the relevance of efforts to consolidate city reputation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is based on agency theory frameyork and gives an essential justification to the concept of reputation, adding to its function as in informative signal, that of guarantee of contracts. In addition, this contractual approach leads us to a new definition of corporate reputation, one that not only introduces the percep!ions of how the firm behaves towards its stakeholders, but also takes into account the degree of informative transparency with which the firm develops relations with them. Using this new and more complete definition, the authors designed a questionnaire to measure this asset, which was then applied to the Spanish banking sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]