Reputation management in public organizations

Speaker: Tom Christensen, Professor emeritus, Department of Political Science, University of Oslo

Tecent Meeting ID: 586 125 360

Abstract:

The lecture starts with discussing what is typical for reputation and reputation management in public organizations, including what the diverse theoretical background is in different fields. This is followed by outlining the main types of reputation proposed by Carpenter–performative, moral, professional / technical and judicial. Then the challenges of balancing the symbols are discussed. Further on, what is characterizing reputation management in comparative perspective is discussed, and some main results from a study of universities in China, US and the Nordic countries are discussed.