Organizations prepare for crisis communication by designing, implementing, and evaluating procedures, scenarios, and emergency measures. In addition to crisis communication, risk communication is a concern for many organizations as well. Risk communication is viewed as an interactive, multi-actor democratic process. Traditionally, risk communication is seen as a linear, top-down, elitist, exper...

The influence of company reputation, or what is often referred to as corporate reputation on branding strategy and producing intangible asset for different industries has been researched in western countries, but there is a gap for the generalizability of findings to countries out of the United State and Europe . To establish the western researcher’s external validity of theories in other count...

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To analyze strategic interactions arising in the cyber-security context, we develop a new reputation game model which an attacker can pretend to be normal user and defender may have announce attack detection at certain point of time without knowing whether he has been attacked. We show existence uniqueness sequential equilibrium Markov strategies, explicitly characterize players' strategies. Us...

This research uses a series of surveys followed by mathematical modeling to help discover risk factors, mitigating actions, and the highest return scenarios as a basis for a low-cost business continuity/disaster recovery plan. The surveys use a Delphi study format in order to rank a base list of risks and mitigating actions and to supplement those lists with ones added by the participants. Surv...

Are trust and risk important in consumers' electronic commerce purchasing decisions? What are the antecedents of trust and risk in this context? How do trust and risk affect an Internet consumer's purchasing decision? To answer these questions, we i) develop a theoretical framework describing the trust-based decision-making process a consumer uses when making a purchase from a given site, ii) t...

Firm reputation is an intangible asset that within a resource-based view can provide a sustainable competitive advantage (Barney, 1991; Carter & Ruefli, 2006; Fombrun, 1996; Roberts & Dowling, 2002). While reputation is built over time, it is highly vulnerable to being tarnished and risks being lost in no time at all (Carter & Ruefli, 2006; Davies, Chun, Vinhas da Silva & Roper, 2003; Hall, 199...