Maeve Brennan may also have managed that female trick of being both well regarded and completely unimportant, one that played out in America, often enough – but the deafness to the female voice in Ireland made these issues of reputation moot.
At the "home office," as Bentonville is known, Action Alley is the company's war room, a communications center that was set up and is staffed by Washington-based operatives from Edelman, a public-relations firm that advises companies on issues of "reputation management".
Leaving to one side issues of reputation or family name and honour, this might be akin to parents wanting to clear an adult child's debts or offer compensation for some harm their adult child has caused.
In fact, Ng and Forbes (2009) consider reputation to be a core value-creating activity for universities, and other research (Ressler & Abratt, 2009) takes a stakeholder lens to the issue of university reputation, seeking a greater understanding of how different stakeholders perceive the reputations of their respective institutions.
By saying that Ferguson harmed her reputation, Jones raises the issue of what her reputation was before Ferguson made his comments to the magazine.
To complicate things further, BSkyB itself has issues of corporate reputation and deal price to address.
John has directly counseled some of the nation's top CEOs facing issues of personal reputation and liability.
In a recent study in Jordan of informal (family) care for people with mental health problems, it was found that issues of gender, reputation, stigma, and the cost of medicine led people to first access traditional medicine, then a biomedical general practitioner, and finally a mental health care service (19).
Finally, there is the issue of your kids reputations and, in some instances, of legal repercussions of their actions.
