Mediating Reputation
Credit Reporting Systems in American History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9621687 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kenneth Lipartito (0000-0002-2161-8673, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 87 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 655-677 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Business History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-6805 • E-ISSN: 2044-768X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0007680513001086 |
| OpenAlex | W2033892565 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 33 |
Examining the development of credit reporting in the United States, this article shows how new, formal methods of assessment of risk and trustworthiness came to mediate business reputations in the credit market over the past century and a half. It focuses on the conflicts over reputation provoked by the new means of assessment and how those conflicts were controlled through organizational procedures and routines as new methodologies were introduced. After World War II seemingly objective quantitative methodologies for evaluating credit worthiness were developed, but they did not eliminate the place of reputation in business decision-making
Actuarial science · Business · Political science · Public relations · Reputation · Trustworthiness · Accounting · Housing Market and Economics · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Marketing · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Psychology · Social Psychology
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The Order of Things
Republic of Debtors
Navigating Failure
The Sinews of American Commerce
Private Lives and Public Surveillance
The Problem of Credit Rating in the Ante-Bellum South
Reputation and Coalitions in Medieval Trade
The Character of Credit
God and Dun & Bradstreet, 1841–1851
Credit Rating Before Dun and Bradstreet
The Evolution of Commercial Credit Reporting Agencies in Nineteenth-Century America
How institutions think
From Rumor to Written Record
A Contemporary Critique of Historical Materialism
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |