Familiarity, ambivalence, and firm reputation: Is corporate fame a double-edged sword?

ME Brooks, S Highhouse, SS Russell… - Journal of Applied …, 2003 - psycnet.apa.org
This research questioned the proposition that corporate familiarity is positively associated
with firm reputation. Student images of familiar and unfamiliar Fortune 500 corporations …

Familiarity breeds ambivalence

ME Brooks, S Highhouse - Corporate Reputation Review, 2006 - Springer
One goal of most corporate marketing strategies is to make stakeholders more familiar with
the corporation. The implicit assumption behind these strategies is that familiarity leads to …

Examining corporate reputation judgments with generalizability theory.

S Highhouse, A Broadfoot, JE Yugo… - Journal of Applied …, 2009 - psycnet.apa.org
The researchers used generalizability theory to examine whether reputation judgments
about corporations function in a manner consistent with contemporary theory in the …

The corporate reputation and consumer-company identification link as a sensemaking process: A cross-level interaction analysis

JS Wolter, DT Donavan, M Giebelhausen - Journal of Business Research, 2021 - Elsevier
With two multilevel studies, the present research applies sensemaking theory to examine the
ignored cross-level relationship of corporate reputation with consumer-company …

Reputation as matching identities and images: Extending Davies and Chun's research on gaps between the Internal and external perceptions of the corporate brand

AT Verčič, D Verčič - Journal of marketing communications, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
Corporate reputation is defined as a construct representing aggregated perceptions of
people in and around companies. A corporate personality scale was developed to measure …

Enough is enough! When identification no longer prevents negative corporate associations

SA Einwiller, A Fedorikhin, AR Johnson… - Journal of the Academy …, 2006 - Springer
Negative publicity has the potential to create negative corporate associations. However,
consumers' identification with a company might moderate the extent of this effect. This article …

Relationships between personal and corporate reputation

DB Bromley - European journal of marketing, 2001 - emerald.com
The psychological study of personal reputation has implications for the study of corporate
identity and reputation. One set of implications deals with the way organisations are …

From actions to impressions: Cognitive attribution theory and the formation of corporate reputation

AM Sjovall, AC Talk - Corporate Reputation Review, 2004 - Springer
Psychologists have long studied how people form impressions about others based on
observed behavior, a principal suggestion being that behavior can be attributed either to the …

Corporate associations in marketing: Antecedents and consequences

TJ Brown - Corporate reputation review, 1998 - Springer
Abstract 'Corporate associations'—what an individual knows or feels about a particular
organization—have long been thought to influence consumers' and other audiences' …

The familiar versus the unfamiliar: Familiarity bias amongst individual investors

A De Vries, PD Erasmus, C Gerber - Acta Commercii, 2017 - journals.co.za
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the existence of familiarity bias
amongst individual investors in the South African stock market. Problem investigated …