The product control (PC) department, the in-house guardian of data and information in an investment bank, shoulders a crucial role by ensuring the integrity, completeness and accuracy of all trading profit and loss (P&L) positions and related finance data. Given the breadth of responsibility that the product controllers have — including working closely with traders to understand their trading s...

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...

In this paper, we explore how a firm’s reputation affects both the reaction of the market to that firm’s product defects, as well as the firm’s learning response. In contrast to a variety of arguments set out by information economists and market sociologists claiming that reputation serves as an organizational asset, we explore the possibility that reputation can be an organizational liability....

T he topic of the “credit crunch” received considerable attention during the early 1990s. As a result, several initiatives aimed at eliminating regulatory disincentives to lending were put in place. For example, documentation requirements recently were reduced to the legal minimum for loans to small and medium-sized businesses. Also, examiners and bankers were encouraged to emphasize the charac...

Background. Attention to the loyalty of fans to the long-term success of sports organizations has become increasingly important. On this note, it seems necessary to pay attention to the variables that predict and influence the loyalty of spectators. Objectives. The aim of this study was to determine the mediating role of satisfaction in the effect of team reputation and team quality on the loy...