‘Peer recommendation’: the role of prosumers in the online corporate reputation

Abstract

The concept of prosumer and the relational perspective of the public relations allow to reconceptualize the traditional corporate reputation concept across the peer recommendation phenomenon. Across a theoretical review based on the use of secondary sources, the main objective of this work is to define the online reputation depending on the actions of communication of the prosumers as part of the corporate communication and public relations management. The results demonstrate that the independence of the prosumers participation and expression becomes as the most effective model of confidence production and, therefore, of major weight for the construction of the online reputation, being established, as final conclusion, an evaluative model for the multidirectional dialog organizationprosumers- environment.