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Organisations acquire reputations



Key Concepts in Marketing
Jim Blythe

Spin-doctoring is a process of putting a good face on unacceptable facts, whereas managing reputation is a process of ensuring that the facts themselves are acceptable, differentiates Jim Blythe in Key Concepts in Marketing ( www.sagepublications.com). He urges organisations to create the accurate reputation (good or bad) rather than try presenting a ‘good’ reputation.

“Corporate communications officers have responsibility for boundary scanning. This means being aware of what is happening at the boundaries between the organisation and its stakeholders, with a view to improving the interactions between the organisation and stakeholders.”Organisations acquire reputations rather than develop them, observes Blythe. “In practice managers are unlikely to create a reputation from scratch – they are much more likely to adjust the organisation’s existing reputation to make it more attractive to some people, or communicate it better to the stakeholders.”

Suggested study.

D. Murali

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