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    Exploring the Link between Corporate Reputation and Journalistic Perception
    The attitudes and actions of a company's various stakeholders are substantially influenced by the company's corporate reputation. As intermediaries, journalists are a tremendously important stakeholder group in the formation of this reputation - their perception and description of a company's features influence the reputation held by many other stakeholders. The better part of a company's reputation in turn is determined by its successful communication efforts - but in order to successfully impact stakeholder perception, a company has to understand which factors actually determine its reputation. Our survey of business and financial journalists has identified seven major categories of company features that influence corporate reputation in the eyes of journalists. It is our conviction that the purposeful communication of the factors identified in our research enhances a company's perceived reputation among business and financial journalists and thereby, through journalists' coverage, assessments and evaluations, its perception by further stakeholders.
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    Intermediaries' Perceptions of Public Companies
    The success and the overall value of a corporation are heavily dependent on the financial community's assessment of that company. Members of the financial community are faced with the challenging task of developing an adequate image or understanding of a company, its state, development and resources. Within the financial community, intermediaries such as journalists and analysts professionally observe, describe and analyze companies. The content produced by intermediaries has a significant impact on how investors perceive companies. Although companies devote a tremendous amount of time and resources to their interaction with investors, their actual control over the content consumed and considered by those investors is very limited. We hold that companies can increase their influence on this content through professional communication to intermediaries on financial markets. Company disclosure can have considerable impact on the perception by intermediaries, if it addresses the intermediaries' informational needs and demands. Companies need to gain an understanding about the factors that actually drive their perception by intermediaries. In a comprehensive survey of 66 intermediaries active on the German financial market, we have identified eight such factor categories. We are convinced that to successfully exert any control over the content consumed by the financial community, corporate communications needs to consistently and concisely address these factors.
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    Linking corporate reputation and journalistic perception in capital markets
    The paper explores based on a qualitative survey of business and financial journalists the link between corporate reputation and journalistic perception in the context of capital market coverage at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
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