Strategic Reputation Management

Pekka Aula is Professor of Communication at Department of Communication, University of Helsinki, Finland. His research interests lie in the problematic of formation and reformation, construction and reconstruction of communicative processes in and between complex organizational networks. He has published and edited several books, and published articles in national and international journals. He is also adjunct professor at the University of Jyvaskyla.Saku Mantere is acting Professor of Management and Organization at Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration in Helsinki, Finland. His research is focused on understanding organizational strategy as a social phenomenon, e.g., its discourses, practices and social positions. He has published in journals such as Organization Science, Journal of Management Studies, Strategic Organization and Journal of Organizational Change Management and Business & Society and Scandinavian Journal of Management

• Part 1: Company of Good: A Contradiction in Terms? 1. The Question Concerning the Good Company: A Good Question Part 2: Strategic Reputation Management 2. Reputation of the Good Company 3. Is reputation capital or interpretation? 4. The arena model of organizational reputation 5. Reputational arenas on markets of meaning Part 3: Managing The Company of Good 6. Doing Good Deeds 7. Communicating the Good 8. Managing good relationships Part 4: Conclusion 9. Conclusion: Company of Good