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The Impact of Corporate Reputation on Firm Risk: A Panel Data Analysis of Spanish Quoted Firms

  1. Juan Bautista Delgado-García*,
  2. Esther de Quevedo-Puente,
  3. José María Díez-Esteban

Article first published online: 21 SEP 2011

DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8551.2011.00782.x

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British Journal of Management

British Journal of Management

Volume 24, Issue 1, pages 1–20, March 2013

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Delgado-García, J. B., de Quevedo-Puente, E. and Díez-Esteban, J. M. (2013), The Impact of Corporate Reputation on Firm Risk: A Panel Data Analysis of Spanish Quoted Firms. British Journal of Management, 24: 1–20. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8551.2011.00782.x

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  1. Departamento de Economía y Administración de Empresas, Facultad de CC.EE. y Empresariales, Burgos, Spain

*Corresponding author email: jbdelgado@ubu.es

  1. The authors would like to thank the Instituto de Análisis de Intangibles for the financial support for this research. Special thanks to Juan Manuel de la Fuente and Virginia Blanco for their insightful comments on previous versions of this paper. Any remaining errors are entirely our responsibility.

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