Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the disruption to civic accountability by strategic corporate action in the form of SLAPP suits. Design/methodology/approach: This paper provides empirical evidence of the discursive processes underpinning participatory and emancipatory...

Purpose – This paper aims to explore any potential link between the corporate issue of a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SLAPP) with a changed environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting focus as part of a complementary communicative legitimation strategy....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to expand our understanding of the motivations for corporate environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting. Design/methodology/approach – This paper provides a conceptual exploration of the motivation for corporations to provide ESG reports and...

Recent empirical work finds that government spending shocks can cause aggregate consumption to increase. This paper builds on the framework of imperfect information in Lucas (1972) and Lorenzoni (2009) to show how government spending can stimulate consumption. Owners of firms targeted by an...