Corporate reputation and sustained superior financial performance

By Peter W. Roberts, G. Dowling. 2002

2,909 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/eb6b552c3e8e7d7caa90019f34a4a2b9eafc4e36

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Accounting

In Economics and Econometrics

In Strategy and Management

Citations in the corpus

Portfolio Entrepreneurship in Family Firms: A Resource-based Perspective (2011, background): “Most importantly, it is regarded as an intangible resource that leads to favorable outcomes, such as improved performance and value creation (Roberts and Dowling, 2002; Shane and Cable, 2002; Shamsie, 2003; Rindova et al., 2010).”
Does corporate social responsibility affect the cost of capital (2011, neutral): “reducing the firm’s costs (Roberts and Dowling, 2002).”
Corporate social responsibility, product market perception, and firm value (2020, positive): “According to the RBV, value is derived from corporate reputation as an important strategic asset that differentiates a company from its competitors and is difficult for competing firms to replicate (Fombrun and Shanley, 1990; Roberts and Dowling, 2002).”
Keeping up Appearances (2013, background): “Rankings also have a tendency to take on a life of their own, drawing attention to the positive aspects of highly ranked firms (e.g., Fombrun and Shanley, 1990; Roberts and Dowling, 2002) and cultivating positive expectations about the way that organizations should behave in their respective field (”
Family Control, Socioemotional Wealth and Earnings Management in Publicly Traded Firms (2014, background): “Reputation decline has been shown to negatively impact both immediate firm performance and the sustainability of superior performance, or longer-term firm performance (Roberts and Dowling, 2002).”
A Study of Management Perceptions of the Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Organisational Performance in Emerging Economies: The Case of Dubai (2008, background): “…(Barney, 1991; Deephouse, 2000; Fombrun and Shanley, 1990; Roberts and Dowling, 2002; Shamsie, 2003), ‘‘precisely because the development of a good reputation takes considerable time and depends on a firm making stable and consistent investments over time’’ (Roberts and Dowling, 2002, p. 1091).”
The Effect of R&D Intensity on Corporate Social Responsibility (2010, background): “According to the RBV, firms with assets that are valuable and rare possess a competitive advantage and may expect to earn superior returns, and those firms whose assets are also difficult to replicate may record a sustained superior financial performance (Barney, 1991; Grant, 1991; Roberts and Dowli”
Overcoming Institutional Voids: A Reputation-Based View of Long Run Survival (2017, background): “Hence, we define markets as “emerging” when institutional voids (an absence of intermediaries) leaves participants struggling to find ways to bring buyers and sellers together to engage in mutually productive exchange.”
How Does the Market Value Corporate Sustainability Performance? (2011, positive): “Corporate reputation has been identified as one of the most important intangible resources that provide a firm sustainable competitive advantage (Roberts and Dowling 2002).”