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For approximately eight years, Whole Foods Market, Inc. [Whole Foods] CEO John Mackey posted messages to Yahoo! Financial online message board for Whole Foods. Rather than using his real name, Mr. Mackey like many posters to chat rooms, created an online alter ego and posted his comments under a...
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This Article examines whether recent shifts among private and public markets are part of a more general phenomenon of “shapeshifting” among corporate entities. A shapeshift is a transformation of corporate form involving the creation or use of a new legal entity and one or more changes in...
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Social media and social media tools have improved rapidly and started to influence society especially in recent years. This influence has forced businesses to revolutionize their communication with the external environment. The fact that Web 2.0 has an influence on consumer behavior, and that it...
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The Department of Communication of any organization must be prepared to prevent and manage crisis situations. Once inside a crisis, an organization apparently fails adnis very difficult to recover the costs (the image and, ultimately, financial). Obviously, profesionals from Public Relations...
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This study examines the association between managerial ability and the readability of narrative disclosures in 10-K reports. Using a large US sample from 1994 to 2015, we find that managerial ability is significantly positively associated with the readability of narrative disclosures in 10-K...
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The goal of this research is to identify determinants of internet Corporate Social Responsibility communication of 41 Belgian companies. Using a content analysis and scoring technique, this paper estimates the degree of website information disclosure of companies' involvement with corporate...
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and social media (SM) as universal interaction tools useful for stakeholder engagement. Through SM stakeholder can easily … important source of institutional pressure for firms and board of directors. They acts as a resonance chamber for stakeholder … CED, deepening the moderating role of stakeholder e-engagement through Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. The effectiveness …
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Building on legitimacy theory and prior work on stakeholder management, we study firm Corporate Social Responsibility …
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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) gained importance over the last years. Yet, only few studies have investigated CSR in German family firms. This study analyzes the CSR communication of 714 listed German family and non-family firms using a content analysis of CSR mission statements. We find...
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marketing and promotion of products, corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices and stakeholder engagement with financial …
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