In the last decades, NGOs have become an important participant in the work of political organizations (e.g., national authorities, the EU or the UN). This development brings many opportunities and also some challenges, including discourse failure which is one of the topics discussed in this...

As corporations increasingly dominate our economic, social, and political lives, and as shareholders vie for greater influence over business policies, can a new “discourse theory” of the firm guide the evolution of corporate law better than current theories primarily focused on shareholder...

This paper focuses on changes in leadership's discourse about the "triple bottom line" in Ben & Jerry's ice cream from its founding days through to its acquisition by and integration into Unilever. For this study, we analyzed CEO claims about "who we are" from their letters in annual reports...

The present study tried to analyze an array of banks advertisements in an Iranian socio-cultural context. The selected commercials are analyzed critically from a top-down as well as a bottom-up point of view. The framework is that of the Faircloughs (1992) which embraces three aspects of...