Markets for Reputation: Evidence on Quality and Quantity in Academe We develop a theory of the market for individual reputation, an indicator of regard by one’s peers and others. The central questions are: 1) Does the quantity of exposures raise reputation independent of their quality? and 2) Assuming that overall quality matters for reputation, does the quality of an individual’s most importan...

The need for reputation assessment is particularly strong in peer-to-peer (P2P) systems because the peers’ personal site autonomy is amplified by the inherent technological decentralization of the environment. However, the decentralization notion makes the problem of designing a peer-to-peer based reputation assessment substantially harder in P2P networks than in centralized settings. Existing ...

This paper investigates the concept of corporate reputation and corporate image. Corporate image is the product of the experiences of a product or service and the messages sent by an organisation, while corporate reputation is the product of management behaviours and organisation-public relationships. This paper explores whether corporate reputation can be managed and who manages it. It is espe...

Reputation management is a powerful security tool that helps establish the trustworthiness of users in online applications. One of the most successful use of reputation systems is on e-commerce web sites such as eBay.com and Amazon.com, which use reputation systems to root out fraudulent sellers. Reputation systems can also play an important role in social networks to enforce various security r...

A positive corporate reputation is generally taken to be a valuable resource leading to competitive advantage. In this paper we examine the association between a firm's media reputation and the amount of trade credit given in a sample of listed UK firms. Consistent with expectations, our results show that a firm's willingness to extend trade credit to its customers is inversely related to its m...

Several reputation models have been introduced to deal with the problem of biased reputation providers. Most of these models discount or discard biased information received from the reputation providers, and most of them are not appropriate when a large population of information providers are biased or dishonest. In this paper, we present a probabilistic approach for reputation modeling, the Pr...

Interactions between entities unknown to each other are inevitable in the ambient intelligence vision of service access anytime, anywhere. Trust management through a reputation mechanism to facilitate such interactions is recognized as a vital part of mobile ad hoc networks, which features lack of infrastructure, autonomy, mobility and resource scarcity of composing light-weight terminals. Howe...

Reputation assessment is particularly needed in peer-to-peer systems because peers can have conflicting interests and their autonomy is amplified by the inherent decentralization of the environment. However, the lack of centralization makes it more difficult to perform reputation assessment. Existing reputation systems tackle the reputation assessment process in an ad-hoc manner. In this thesis...

Q&A systems are becoming a vital source of knowledge in many different domains. In some cases, they are also associated with services which provide employers with important information regarding the expertise of its potential employees. Therefore, the reputation earned in such communities can be associated with better job opportunities, and its significance is increasing. However, in a communit...