Reputation, the Glossary
- ️Thu May 31 2012
The reputation or prestige of a social entity (a person, a social group, an organization, or a place) is an opinion about that entity – typically developed as a result of social evaluation on a set of criteria, such as behavior or performance.[1]
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128 relations: Advice (opinion), Allstate, Alumni, Amazon (company), Anil Potti, Anonymity, Attitude (psychology), Auction, Behavior, Belief, Brand, Brand extension, Business, Candidate, Celebrity, Chief reputation officer, Coca-Cola, Cognition, Cognitive map, Collective action problem, Community, Company, Competition, Competitive advantage, Confirmatory factor analysis, Consumer, Convergent validity, Cooperation, Corporate communication, Corporate identity, Corporation, Culture, Customer, Customer satisfaction, D&B Hoovers, Deception, Definition, Digital footprint, Digital identity, Discriminant validity, Dow Chemical Company, Duke University, EBay, Education, Employment, Ethics, Evaluation, Evolution, Face (sociological concept), Facebook, ... Expand index (78 more) »
Advice (opinion)
Advice (also called exhortation) is a form of relating personal or institutional opinions, belief systems, values, recommendations or guidance about certain situations relayed in some context to another person, group or party.
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Allstate
The Allstate Corporation is an American insurance company, headquartered in Glenview, Illinois (with a Northbrook, Illinois address) since 2022.
Alumni
Alumni (alumnus or alumna) are former students or graduates of a school, college, or university.
Amazon (company)
Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon, is an American multinational technology company, engaged in e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
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Anil Potti
Anil Potti is a physician and former Duke University associate professor and cancer researcher, focusing on oncogenomics.
Anonymity
Anonymity describes situations where the acting person's identity is unknown.
Attitude (psychology)
An attitude "is a summary evaluation of an object of thought.
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Auction
An auction is usually a process of buying and selling goods or services by offering them up for bids, taking bids, and then selling the item to the highest bidder or buying the item from the lowest bidder.
Behavior
Behavior (American English) or behaviour (British English) is the range of actions and mannerisms made by individuals, organisms, systems or artificial entities in some environment.
Belief
A belief is a subjective attitude that a proposition is true or a state of affairs is the case.
Brand
A brand is a name, term, design, symbol or any other feature that distinguishes one seller's good or service from those of other sellers.
Brand extension
Brand extension or brand stretching is a marketing strategy in which a firm marketing a product with a well-developed image uses the same brand name in a different product category.
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Business
Business is the practice of making one's living or making money by producing or buying and selling products (such as goods and services).
Candidate
A candidate, or nominee, is the prospective recipient of an award or honor, or a person seeking or being considered for some kind of position; for example.
Celebrity
Celebrity is a condition of fame and broad public recognition of a person or group as a result of the attention given to them by mass media.
Chief reputation officer
A chief reputation officer (CRO) is an executive-level position at a corporation, company, organization, or institution, typically reporting directly to the CEO or board of directors and belonging to the executive board of directors.
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Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola, or Coke, is a carbonated soft drink with a cola flavor manufactured by the Coca-Cola Company.
Cognition
Cognition is the "mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses".
Cognitive map
A cognitive map is a type of mental representation which serves an individual to acquire, code, store, recall, and decode information about the relative locations and attributes of phenomena in their everyday or metaphorical spatial environment.
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Collective action problem
A collective action problem or social dilemma is a situation in which all individuals would be better off cooperating but fail to do so because of conflicting interests between individuals that discourage joint action. Reputation and collective action problem are social psychology.
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A community is a social unit (a group of living things) with a shared socially significant characteristic, such as place, set of norms, culture, religion, values, customs, or identity.
Company
A company, abbreviated as co., is a legal entity representing an association of legal people, whether natural, juridical or a mixture of both, with a specific objective.
Competition
Competition is a rivalry where two or more parties strive for a common goal which cannot be shared: where one's gain is the other's loss (an example of which is a zero-sum game).
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Competitive advantage
In business, a competitive advantage is an attribute that allows an organization to outperform its competitors.
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Confirmatory factor analysis
In statistics, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) is a special form of factor analysis, most commonly used in social science research.
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Consumer
A consumer is a person or a group who intends to order, or use purchased goods, products, or services primarily for personal, social, family, household and similar needs, who is not directly related to entrepreneurial or business activities.
Convergent validity
Convergent validity in the behavioral sciences refers to the degree to which two measures that theoretically should be related, are in fact related.
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Cooperation
Cooperation (written as co-operation in British English and, with a varied usage along time, coöperation) takes place when a group of organisms works or acts together for a collective benefit to the group as opposed to working in competition for selfish individual benefit. Reputation and Cooperation are moral psychology.
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Corporate communication
Corporate communication(s) is a set of activities involved in managing and orchestrating all internal and external communications aimed at creating a favourable point of view among stakeholders on which the company depends.
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Corporate identity
A corporate identity or corporate image is the manner in which a corporation, firm or business enterprise presents itself to the public.
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Corporation
A corporation is an organization—usually a group of people or a company—authorized by the state to act as a single entity (a legal entity recognized by private and public law as "born out of statute"; a legal person in a legal context) and recognized as such in law for certain purposes.
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Culture
Culture is a concept that encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups.
Customer
In sales, commerce, and economics, a customer (sometimes known as a client, buyer, or purchaser) is the recipient of a good, service, product, or an idea, obtained from a seller, vendor, or supplier via a financial transaction or an exchange for money or some other valuable consideration.
Customer satisfaction
Customer satisfaction is a term frequently used in marketing to evaluate customer experience.
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D&B Hoovers
D&B Hoovers was founded by Gary Hoover and Patrick Spain in 1990Solomon, Steve.
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Deception
Deception is the act of convincing one or many recipients of untrue information.
Definition
A definition is a statement of the meaning of a term (a word, phrase, or other set of symbols).
Digital footprint or digital shadow refers to one's unique set of traceable digital activities, actions, contributions, and communications manifested on the Internet or digital devices.
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Digital identity
A digital identity is data stored on computer systems relating to an individual, organization, application, or device.
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Discriminant validity
In psychology, discriminant validity tests whether concepts or measurements that are not supposed to be related are actually unrelated.
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Dow Chemical Company
The Dow Chemical Company is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Midland, Michigan, United States.
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Duke University
Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States.
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EBay
eBay Inc. (often stylized as ebay or Ebay) is an American multinational e-commerce company based in San Jose, California, that allows users to buy or view items via retail sales through online marketplaces and websites in 190 markets worldwide.
Education
Education is the transmission of knowledge, skills, and character traits and manifests in various forms.
Employment
Employment is a relationship between two parties regulating the provision of paid labour services.
Ethics
Ethics is the philosophical study of moral phenomena.
Evaluation
In common usage, evaluation is a systematic determination and assessment of a subject's merit, worth and significance, using criteria governed by a set of standards.
Evolution
Evolution is the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.
Face (sociological concept)
Face is a class of behaviors and customs, associated with the morality, honor, and authority of an individual (or group of individuals), and its image in social groups.
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Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by American technology conglomerate Meta.
Finance
Finance refers to monetary resources and to the study and discipline of money, currency and capital assets.
Financial transaction
A financial transaction is an agreement, or communication, between a buyer and seller to exchange goods, services, or assets for payment.
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Google Alerts
Google Alerts is a content change detection and notification service, offered by Google.
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Gossip
Gossip is idle talk or rumor, especially about the personal or private affairs of others; the act is also known as dishing or tattling. Reputation and Gossip are moral psychology.
Governance
Governance is the overall complex system or framework of processes, functions, structures, rules, laws and norms borne out of the relationships, interactions, power dynamics and communication within an organized group of individuals which not only sets the boundaries of acceptable conduct and practices of different actors of the group and controls their decision-making processes through the creation and enforcement of rules and guidelines, but also manages, allocates and mobilizes relevant resources and capacities of different members and sets the overall direction of the group in order to effectively address its specific collective needs, problems and challenges.
Government
A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state.
GSK plc
GSK plc (an acronym from its former name GlaxoSmithKline plc) is a British multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company with global headquarters in London.
Headache
Headache, also known as cephalalgia, is the symptom of pain in the face, head, or neck.
Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory
Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory is a framework for cross-cultural psychology, developed by Geert Hofstede.
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Honour
Honour (Commonwealth English) or honor (American English; see spelling differences) is a quality of a person that is of both social teaching and personal ethos, that manifests itself as a code of conduct, and has various elements such as valour, chivalry, honesty, and compassion.
Icon
An icon is a religious work of art, most commonly a painting, in the cultures of the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Catholic churches.
Id, ego and superego
In psychoanalytic theory, the id, ego and superego are three distinct, interacting agents in the psychic apparatus, defined in Sigmund Freud's structural model of the psyche.
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Identity is the set of qualities, beliefs, personality traits, appearance, and/or expressions that characterize a person or a group.
See Reputation and Identity (social science)
Impression management
Impression management is a conscious or subconscious process in which people attempt to influence the perceptions of other people about a person, object or event by regulating and controlling information in social interaction. Reputation and Impression management are reputation management.
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Industry (economics)
In macroeconomics, an industry is a branch of an economy that produces a closely related set of raw materials, goods, or services.
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Industry analyst
An industry analyst performs primary and secondary market research within an industry such as information technology, consulting or insurance.
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Intangible asset
An intangible asset is an asset that lacks physical substance.
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Investor
An investor is a person who allocates financial capital with the expectation of a future return (profit) or to gain an advantage (interest).
Ipsos MORI
Ipsos MORI was the name of a market research company based in London, England which is now known as Ipsos and still continues as the UK arm of the global Ipsos group.
Journal of Theoretical Biology
The Journal of Theoretical Biology is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering theoretical biology, as well as mathematical, computational, and statistical aspects of biology.
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Leadership
Leadership, both as a research area and as a practical skill, encompasses the ability of an individual, group, or organization to "", influence, or guide other individuals, teams, or entire organizations.
Lexical item
In lexicography, a lexical item is a single word, a part of a word, or a chain of words (catena) that forms the basic elements of a language's lexicon (≈ vocabulary).
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Management
Management (or managing) is the administration of organizations, whether they are a business, a nonprofit organization, or a government body through business administration, nonprofit management, or the political science sub-field of public administration respectively.
Mass media include the diverse arrays of media that reach a large audience via mass communication.
Mechanism (sociology)
The term social mechanisms and mechanism-based explanations of social phenomena originate from the philosophy of science.
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Mental model
A mental model is an internal representation of external reality: that is, a way of representing reality within one's mind.
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Myspace
Myspace (formerly stylized as MySpace; also myspace and sometimes my␣, with an elongated open box symbol) is a social networking service based in the United States.
Nausea
Nausea is a diffuse sensation of unease and discomfort, sometimes perceived as an urge to vomit.
Nomological network
A nomological network (or nomological net) is a representation of the concepts (constructs) of interest in a study, their observable manifestations, and the interrelationships between these.
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An online community, also called an internet community or web community, is a community whose members interact with each other primarily via the Internet.
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Online participation
Online participation is used to describe the interaction between users and online communities on the web. Reputation and online participation are social psychology.
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Opinion
An opinion is a judgment, viewpoint, or statement that is not conclusive, rather than facts, which are true statements.
Organization
An organization or organisation (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences), is an entity—such as a company, an institution (formal organization), or an association—comprising one or more people and having a particular purpose.
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Organizational culture
Organizational culture refers to culture related to organizations including schools, universities, not-for-profit groups, government agencies, and business entities.
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Person
A person (people or persons, depending on context) is a being who has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility.
Phenomenon
A phenomenon (phenomena), sometimes spelled phaenomenon, is an observable event.
Physician
A physician, medical practitioner (British English), medical doctor, or simply doctor is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the study, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease, injury, and other physical and mental impairments.
Political party
A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections.
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Politics
Politics is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status.
Potential
Potential generally refers to a currently unrealized ability.
Project stakeholder
Project stakeholders are persons or entities who have an interest in a given project.
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Public relations
Public relations (PR) is the practice of managing and disseminating information from an individual or an organization (such as a business, government agency, or a nonprofit organization) to the public in order to influence their perception.
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In social psychology, reciprocity is a social norm of responding to a positive action with another positive action, rewarding kind actions.
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Regulatory agency
A regulatory agency (regulatory body, regulator) or independent agency (independent regulatory agency) is a government authority that is responsible for exercising autonomous dominion over some area of human activity in a licensing and regulating capacity.
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Repsol
Repsol S.A., El Nuevo Herald, 2012-05-31Originally an initialism for Refinería de Petróleos de Escombreras adding the word Sol (Sun) is a Spanish multinational energy and petrochemical company based in Madrid.
Reputation capital
Reputation capital is the quantitative measure of some entity's reputational value in some context – a community or marketplace. Reputation and reputation capital are reputation management.
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Reputation management
Reputation management, originally a public relations term, refers to the influencing, controlling, enhancing, or concealing of an individual's or group's reputation.
See Reputation and Reputation management
Risk
In simple terms, risk is the possibility of something bad happening.
Role
A role (also rôle or social role) is a set of connected behaviors, rights, obligations, beliefs, and norms as conceptualized by people in a social situation.
Royal family
A royal family is the immediate family of kings/queens, emirs/emiras, sultans/sultanas, or raja/rani and sometimes their extended family.
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SABMiller
SABMiller plc was a South African multinational brewing and beverage company headquartered in Woking, England on the outskirts of London until 10 October 2016 when it was acquired by AB InBev for US$107-billion.
Scarlet Letter (disambiguation)
The Scarlet Letter is an 1850 novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne (and the eponymous scarlet "A" mentioned therein).
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Science
Science is a strict systematic discipline that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the world.
Scientific misconduct
Scientific misconduct is the violation of the standard codes of scholarly conduct and ethical behavior in the publication of professional scientific research.
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A shareholder (in the United States often referred to as stockholder) of corporate stock refers to an individual or legal entity (such as another corporation, a body politic, a trust or partnership) that is registered by the corporation as the legal owner of shares of the share capital of a public or private corporation.
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Shivering
Shivering (also called shuddering) is a bodily function in response to cold and extreme fear in warm-blooded animals.
Show business
Show business, sometimes shortened to show biz or showbiz (since 1945), is a vernacular term for all aspects of the entertainment industry.
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Simulation & Gaming
Simulation and Gaming: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theory, Practice and Research, is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers the field of computer simulation and gaming, including virtual reality, serious games and educational games.
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Skill
A skill is the learned ability to act with determined results with good execution often within a given amount of time, energy, or both.
Skilled worker
A skilled worker is any worker who has special skill, training, knowledge which they can then apply to their work.
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Social organisms, including human(s), live collectively in interacting populations.
Social capital is "the networks of relationships among people who live and work in a particular society, enabling that society to function effectively".
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Social control is the regulations, sanctions, mechanisms, and systems that restrict the behaviour of individuals in accordance with social norms and orders.
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In the social sciences, a social group is defined as two or more people who interact with one another, share similar characteristics, and collectively have a sense of unity.
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A social network is a social structure made up of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations), sets of dyadic ties, and other social interactions between actors.
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Social norms are shared standards of acceptable behavior by groups.
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The term social order can be used in two senses: In the first sense, it refers to a particular system of social structures and institutions.
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A social relation is the fundamental unit of analysis within the social sciences, and describes any voluntary or involuntary interpersonal relationship between two or more individuals within and/or between groups.
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Social software, also known as social apps or social platform includes communications and interactive tools that are often based on the Internet.
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Stakeholder (corporate)
In a corporation, a stakeholder is a member of "groups without whose support the organization would cease to exist", as defined in the first usage of the word in a 1963 internal memorandum at the Stanford Research Institute.
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Stakeholder theory
The stakeholder theory is a theory of organizational management and business ethics that accounts for multiple constituencies impacted by business entities like employees, suppliers, local communities, creditors, and others.
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Supply chain
A supply chain, sometimes expressed as a "supply-chain", is a complex logistics system that consists of facilities that convert raw materials into finished products and distribute them to end consumers or end customers.
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Taxonomy
Taxonomy is a practice and science concerned with classification or categorization.
Technology
Technology is the application of conceptual knowledge to achieve practical goals, especially in a reproducible way.
Trust is the belief that another person will do what is expected. Reputation and Trust (social science) are moral psychology and reputation management.
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X, commonly referred to by its former name Twitter, is a social networking service.
A virtual community is a social work of individuals who connect through specific social media, potentially crossing geographical and political boundaries in order to pursue mutual interests or goals.
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Weber Shandwick
Weber Shandwick is a marketing communications firm formed in 2001 by merging the Weber Group, Shandwick International and BSMG.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reputation
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