The relationship between corporate reputation and organizational citizenship behavior: a comparative study on TV companies and banks

Corporate reputation (CR) is an increasingly emphasized issue in the management and organizational studies. Many research studies on the corporate reputation have revealed the impact of that issue on the informal performances of employees. The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between corporate reputation and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). The survey method has been conducted through random sampling. Four TV companies and four banks have been included in the survey. Results have been evaluated comparatively across two different sectors. The research has been composed of two parts; in the first part the corporate reputations of the chosen companies have been measured according to the Cravens et al. (2003) index. In the second part of the research the organizational citizenship behaviors of the employees in the eight companies have been measured and the relationship between corporate reputations of the companies and the employees’ OCBs have been analyzed through the correlation and regression analysis. It is revealed that there is a statistically significant effect of CR on OCB.     

Downsizing and the fragility of corporate reputation: An analysis of the impact of contextual factors

This study extends prior research on the impact of downsizing on corporate reputation by investigating how specific aspects of downsizing measures influence this relationship. Using panel data on the S&P 100 companies for the period 1990–2000, we find that downsizing affects corporate reputation negatively and that the size of the effect depends on the content and the context of the downsizing announcement. More specifically, we find that the motive for downsizing, the time period in which it is announced as well as the extent of previous layoffs significantly influence the reputational penalties that are associated with corporate downsizing. Our results thus elucidate how contextual factors of a downsizing decision can influence the extent of the reputational damage of this measure.     

The moderating effect of the technological level of industry on the relationship between innovation and corporate reputation

Corporate reputation is one of the principal intangible assets a firm possesses. The entrepreneurial, innovative nature of the firm has been recognized as one of the antecedents of corporate reputation. However, specialist literature has paid scant attention to the relative importance of an entrepreneurial nature as an element that helps to improve corporate reputation in comparison with other antecedents such as product quality. Even less is known about exactly how this antecedent influences corporate reputation among different stakeholders. Little is also known about possible variations in how this antecedent is perceived by different industries. Thus, with a view to contributing to knowledge on how corporate reputation is formed, derived from the innovative nature of the firm, this article attempts to analyze how the environment affects the causal relation between the entrepreneurial, innovative nature of the firm and its corporate reputation. We particularly analyze the environment according to its technological level, distinguishing between three types of industry: high tech, medium tech, and low tech, using a sample of 308 US firms and structural equation modeling (SEM) techniques. The empirical test provided some unexpected and interesting results.     

Stakeholder value analysis: a methodology for intergrating stakeholder values into corporate enviromental investment decisions

Increasingly, decision‐makers in industry are being faced with complex investment decisions created and made emotive by diverse stakeholder expectations. Investments with the potential to have an impact on a company's environmental performance are a prime example of this since they are driven by multidimensional impacts, many of which are difficult to quantify in scientific and monetary terms. This paper presents a stakeholder value analysis (SVA) model, which can be used to address such problems, using a multiple‐attribute decision methodology. This decision tool has been developed and validated through a series of industrial applications, one of which is outlined here. This application describes the use of the tool in a company context whereby stakeholders from within the company are canvassed for their priorities and views. The SVA tool is used not only to guide and support this process but also to analyse the data and consequently produce output decision metrics, which express the preferences of all relevant stakeholders and which can therefore be more confidently used to support the final decision. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.     

Applying structural equation modeling methodology to test validation: an example of cyberspace positive psychology scale

Although the structural equation modeling (SEM) methodology is a powerful tool for validating psychological measurements, few studies have used complete SEM-based indexes in test validation. This study developed and validated the cyberspace positive psychology scale (C-PPS) via SEM techniques. A total of 411 college students were recruited from four universities in Taiwan for the study. Hierarchical confirmatory factor analysis was used to test construct validity, and a structural model provided criterion-related validity. Reliability was reported via composite reliability. Results of the analyses show that the C-PPS demonstrated high reliability and good construct validity. Furthermore, criterion-related validity identified that although positive psychology in cyberspace and positive psychology in real life contexts are correlated, the two are also distinguishable. To conclude, the C-PPS is valid and reliable. The validation of the C-PPS indicates that college students can exhibit positive psychological traits in both the real and virtual worlds.     

着力构建以人为本的企业文化

以人为本是对人性基本规律和人的发展客观规律的尊重,符合当今时代发展的要求,也是实现企业管理最优化的必然要求。在新的历史时期,加快企业发展,构建和谐企业,应该全面建设和践行以人为本的先进文化,充分调动员工的主体力量,有效促进企业的发展和     

打造强势企业文化引领企业快速发展

开滦集团范各庄矿业公司1964年10月投产,是我国第一座自行勘察、自行设计、自行施工建造的大型现代化矿井。企业年产原煤450万吨以上,年利润6亿元以上,是开滦集团的骨干矿井。改革开放30年为范各庄矿业公司的发展提供了前所未有的新机遇,注入了前所未有的新理     

Soaring corporate debt is a risk to global growth

• ▀ Corporate borrowing is accelerating as a result of the coronavirus crisis. In part, this is a healthy development as firms look to ride out a period of low or even zero sales. But it also brings potential risks to growth, especially in the longer term, including via lengthy balance sheet restructuring that hurts investment and productivity growth.
• ▀ In the advanced economies, we estimate the aggregate corporate debt/GDP ratio could rise as much as 10ppts in 2020, to 95% of GDP - well above the 2009 peak. Debt service ratios may also rise into risky territory despite low interest rates. Risks look especially elevated in France and Canada.
• ▀ Evidence for both advanced and emerging economies suggests high corporate debt levels can damage growth. Highly indebted firms tend to invest less in both the near and medium terms, and some estimates suggest the rise in aggregate debt this year could cut GDP growth by up to 0.2% per year.
• ▀ The coronavirus crisis may also crystallise some pre-existing risks in corporate debt. Despite government assistance, defaults by low-rated firms have started to rise and commercial real estate prices are falling.
• ▀ Sectoral concentrations of risk may also be intensified and new ones created in industries hit hard by the virus like energy and consumer discretionary sectors.
• ▀ Emerging market corporate debt is also on the rise - sharply in some cases. In some economies, this mostly reflects exchange rate effects. But negative balance sheet effects of this kind are also a risk to growth.

     

企业文化，以文明化人

"文化"二字,在我们生活中出现的频率越来越高,这是因为经济离不开文化.文化从字面来讲,就是以文明化人,有的说以文化人.很多人认为企业是个经济组织,在企业发展的初级阶段,这么理解也不能说错误,但当企业走上一个较为高级阶段时,仍把它视为一个经济组织,显然是片面的,因为经济是手段,经济也是目的.企业发展最重要的标志就是人的全面发展,物质生活的全面提高,精神文明的全面提高.我想,这是我们理解企业文化的一个基点.     

大力创建具有中国特色的企业文化——中外企业文化南宁峰会综述

2008年11月15日,近500名专家学者和企业界代表参加了中国企业文化研究会主办的"改革开放30年与企业文化建设--中外企业文化南宁峰会".     

Implications of corporate culture: a manager's guide to action

Drawing on cultural anthropology, Sathe develops a way of thinking about corporate culture that makes the concept analytically useful for dealing with managerial problems. He shows that by distinguishing between culture and behavior, and examining both simultaneously, it is possible to see more clearly why culture can be both an asset and a liability, and why it has such a subtle but powerful influence on organizational life. Not all cultures are equally powerful, however; Sathe presents some approaches for diagnosing a culture and understanding its strengths along with some implications for managerial action. Noting that a "perfect" culture-person fit is difficult to engineer, he makes suggestions for avoiding such mismatches and for better managing the culture shocks that inevitably hit the newcomer to an organization. He then turns to the question of how culture/person misfits may be understood and managed and what it takes to successfully deviate from the organization's culture when one is required to do so.     

构建特色文化推动企业发展——北京水泥厂有限责任公司企业文化建设纪实

北京水泥厂有限责任公司注重将文化建设融入企业经营活动和企业持续发展之中,坚持以人为本,以员工的全面进步为目标,培育具有“北水”特色的企业文化,有力地促进了企业的全面协调发展。     

Applying importance-performance analysis to compare the changes of a convenient store

This study applies importance-performance analysis to examine how the services provided by the convenient store (Hi-Life) located in Asia University have been changed when a competitor of a 7–11 convenient store opens nearby the university. In this case study, the performance for each item in the survey was measured by the average value, while the importance was evaluated by the variance-based methods. With the use of importance- performance analysis, a comparison of provided services at Hi-Life can be evaluated by two four-quadrant matrices to see how the services have been changed when the 7–11 becomes the competitor nearby the university.     

关于城市文化与企业文化关系的研究——以青岛市为例进行的思考和探索

[按]城市文化与企业文化之间具有怎样的关系?如何使两者相互作用,相辅相成,相得益彰?青岛市城市文化与企业文化关系研究课题组对这一问题进行了有益探索.本期全文刊登研究报告,主要是想帮助企业在建设企业文化,实施文化管理时拓宽视野,开阔思路.充分依托所在城市,继承发扬所在城市的优良传统,提高企业的社会责任感,增强企业的核心竞争力,让企业与所在城市一同起飞.同时也希冀对城市的文化建设有所启发与参考.     

Returns to corporate diversification in the 1970s

This research analyzes the performance of large corporations during the business cycles of the 1970s. The analysis identifies the level of diversification preferred by a risk-averse investor at different stages of the business cycle. The data base is a group of 222 large industrial corporations for which the number of four-digit SIC production areas has been determined for each firm. The analytical method used is that of second-degree stochastic dominance, a method that is sensitive not only to mean differences in corporate performance but also to the skewness of profitability distributions. The findings indicate that risk-averters would prefer the ten-year performance of moderately diversified firms to the performance of firms with low levels of diversification. In addition, moderately diversified firms were preferred to highly diversified firms. Finally, the experience of the 1970s suggest that there are serious managerial diseconomies of diversification in recessions.     

在崇山峻岭中建设企业文化

在国家重点工程项目——石太铁路客运专线建设中,中铁二十二局集团石太项目部,在恶劣的条件下,注重以企业文化打造钢铁团队,提升项目管理水平,推进企业全面发展,在石太线上较好地展示了中国铁建和中铁二十二局的良好形象。     

Relative information asymmetry as a determinant of the market reaction to corporate financing announcements

Information-asymmetry-based models predict that the market should react negatively to unanticipated external financing. Previous empirical studies lend limited support to these conjectures. This study examines the anticipation issue using financial analysts' earnings-forecast errors as a proxy for information available prior to the external-financing announcement. The conjecture is that external financing would be less anticipated for firms which financial analysts cannot accurately predict their earnings. Event study results indicate that high-prediction-error firms exhibit significantly lower announcement period returns than lowprediction-error firms for non-convertible debt, convertible debt, and common stock offerings.     

重视企业法律文化建设

2004年10月,深圳美芝海燕电子来料加工厂发生一起劳资纠纷激化事件.事后,深圳市劳动和社会保障局对该厂调查认定了五项严重侵害劳动者权益的违法问题:一是2608名员工工资低于最低工资标准,低于标准部分金额达到32万余元二是1973名员工劳动超过法定时间,每月加班超过36小时部分累计达到6万多小时;三是加班工资低于法定的最低标准四是有1338人未办用工手续,累计达6419个月;五是部分员工未按规定办理社会保险.     

创新企业文化 落实科学发展

大同煤矿集团公司高度重视企业文化建设与创新,坚持以高品质的企业文化来推动企业科学发展.特别是近年来,企业从自身实际出发,确立了"制度管企,文化管人'的企业文化建设总体思路,以文化力增强各项工作的执行力,有效地提升了企业管理水平,增强了企业核心竞争力,为推动企业科学发展、和谐发展、可持续发展奠定了坚实的基础.