We study rhetorical impression management in the letter to shareholders using linguistic style properties of text and investigate whether the company’s institutional environment affects the rhetorical style of the CEO in the shareholder letter. The effect of the institutional environment is...

This paper investigates the informativeness of rhetorical impression management patterns of CEO letters. We identify three holistic style patterns (assertive acclaiming, cautious plausibility-based framing and logic-based rationalizing) and examine the relationship of each composite linguistic...