Law and Reputation: How the Legal System Shapes Behavior by Producing Information (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781107186507)

The legal system affects behavior not just directly, by imposing sanctions, but also indirectly, by producing information on how people behave. For example, internal company documents exposed during litigation will help third parties assess whether they trust a company and want to keep doing business with it. The law therefore affects behavior by shaping reputations. Drawing on economics, communications, and a nascent multidisciplinary literature on reputation, Roy Shapira highlights how reputation works, and how information from the courtroom affects the court of public opinion, with a particular emphasis on the role of the media. By fleshing out interactions between law and reputation, Shapira corrects common misperceptions about the ability of market forces to discipline corporate behavior and adds to timely, ongoing debates such as the desirability of heightened pleading standards or mandatory arbitration clauses. Law and Reputation should interest any scholar who invokes notions of market discipline in their work.

Author: Roy Shapira
ISBN-10: 1107186501
ISBN-13: 9781107186507
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/17/2020
Pages: 250
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d