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Pathways to Corporate Accountability: Corporate Reputation and Its Alternatives

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  • Craig Carroll

    (Observatory on Corporate Reputation, LLC)

  • Rowena Olegario

    (Saïd Business School, University of Oxford)

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The aim of our themed symposium is to explore the limits and possibilities of corporate reputation for enabling corporate accountability. We articulate three perspectives on corporate accountability. The communicative perspective equates accountability with disclosure and stakeholder engagement. The phenomenological perspective focuses on stakeholder expectations and reputation management. The consequential perspective focuses on effects/consequences. We then examine how corporate accountability is understood, how it relates to ideals, mission, and purpose, alternative pathways to corporate accountability, reputational consequences, and the role algorithms play in relationships between corporate reputation and accountability. Using a multitude of organizational contexts, these papers advance our understanding of how corporate reputation can be used as a mechanism for creating greater corporate accountability, and for identifying alternative pathways when corporate reputation fails to do so.

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  • Craig Carroll & Rowena Olegario, 2020. "Pathways to Corporate Accountability: Corporate Reputation and Its Alternatives," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 163(2), pages 173-181, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:jbuset:v:163:y:2020:i:2:d:10.1007_s10551-019-04228-2
    DOI: 10.1007/s10551-019-04228-2
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