Reputation is the most complex asset of an organization. Despite the call for consistent management of corporate reputation comprehensive approaches to measure and steer a company' s reputation are still in their infancy. Reputation management aims at creating a balance between stakeholder demands, perceptions and corporate reality in order to foster behavior that helps a company achieve its business goals. It needs to be based on thorough research and requires orchestrated execution through management processes across organizational units, communication disciplines, and countries. This calls for a management system to establish a closed cycle of strategic planning, implementation, performance measurement, and reporting. The book gives answers to the following questions: What is reputation and which conceptualizations do exist? What are the state-of-the-art methods and tools to measure corporate reputation? What are best practice examples and future trends in the field of corporate reputation management?

Reputation is the most complex asset of an organization. Despite the call for consistent management of corporate reputation comprehensive approaches to measure and steer a company' s reputation are still in their infancy. Reputation management aims at creating a balance between stakeholder demands, perceptions and corporate reality in order to foster behavior that helps a company achieve its business goals. It needs to be based on thorough research and requires orchestrated execution through management processes across organizational units, communication disciplines, and countries. This calls for a management system to establish a closed cycle of strategic planning, implementation, performance measurement, and reporting. The book gives answers to the following questions: What is reputation and which conceptualizations do exist? What are the state-of-the-art methods and tools to measure corporate reputation? What are best practice examples and future trends in the field of corporate reputation management?

Der Kundenwert als wichtige Determinante des Unternehmenserfolgs ruckt mehr und mehr ins Zentrum der Aufmerksamkeit. Hier werden erstmals aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven von renommierten und kompetenten Autoren Bausteine des Kundenwerts analysiert, Berechnungsmethoden diskutiert und um Erfahrungsberichte aus der Praxis erganzt.
Die 3. Auflage wurde um die Themenfelder der Kundenwertermittlung auf mehrstufigen Markten, Was ist der Kunde des Kunden wert - ein Problem des Segment-Controlling sowie Customer Equity erweitert.
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Sabrina Helm analysiert die Determinanten und Auswirkungen von Kundenempfehlungen.

Vor dem Hintergrund aktueller Ansatze der Reputationsforschung analysiert Sabrina Helm Entstehung, Veranderung und Auswirkungen des Rufes von Unternehmen. Anhand einer empirischen Untersuchung stellt sie die Bedeutung des guten Rufes fur einen zentralen Erfolgsindikator von Unternehmen heraus: die Loyalitat von Kunden, Aktionaren und Mitarbeitern.