Reputation and Accountability Relationships: Managing Accountability Expectations through Reputation

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Busuioc, Madalina; Lodge, Martin
• 署名单位: University of Exeter; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3352
• DOI: 10.1111/puar.12612
• 发表日期: 2017
• 页码: 91-100
• 关键词: ORGANIZATIONAL REPUTATION; TRANSPARENCY; attention; daniel; work

摘要

Accountability is said to be about the management of expectations. Empirical studies reveal considerable variation in organizational interest, intensity, and investment in accountability relationships. Less is known, however, about what explains these observed variations. Drawing on accountability and reputation-concerned literatures, this article argues that a reputation-based perspective on accountability offers an underlying logic that explains how account-giving actors and account-holding forums actually manage these expectations and how organizations make sense of and prioritize among accountability responsibilities. Reputational considerations act as a filtering mechanism of external demands and help account for variations in degrees of interest in, and intensity of, accountability. The resulting accountability outcomes are coproduced by the reputational investment of both account-giver and account-holder, resulting in distinct accountability constellations and outcomes.