CEO Narcissism and Linguistic Complexity in Earnings Conference Calls
ABSTRACT Existing research shows that firms leverage linguistic complexity in corporate communication to obscure negative information and shape audience perception. In this study, we examine the impact of CEO narcissism on the strategic use of linguistic complexity during earnings conference calls.
Frederic Lammers, Ulrich Pape
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Do Executives Have Fixed Effects on Firm-Level Stock Price Crash Risk?
This paper investigates whether individual CEOs and CFOs have “styles” (i.e. manager’s fixed effects) in withholding corporate bad news, which is captured using firm-level future stock price crash risks.
Liu, Jiaxin
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Testing the Bonds: Franco‐Russian Alliance and the First Sino‐Japanese War
The conclusion of the Franco‐Russian Alliance was one of the major turning points in the history of international relations before the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. However, the alliance was put under its first severe test only months after its ratification in 1894.
Julius Lucas Becker
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The attention‐based view: Review and conceptual extension towards situated attention
Abstract Over two decades ago, William Ocasio introduced the attention‐based view (ABV) of the firm with a powerful argument: firm‐level behaviour is the result of the situated distribution and allocation of managerial attention, embedded in broader organizational structures and the environmental context. ABV‐based research has received substantial and
Christoph Brielmaier, Martin Friesl
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Bulbs and Biopower: Managing Produce and Price in the Age of Agri‐Logistics
Abstract This paper deploys the material and discursive politics of storage as a lens into agrarian change in rural India. Focusing on onions (Allium cepa), a price volatile crop and a kitchen staple, it maps out the contested meanings of and motivations for storage among growers, governments, and agri‐logistics companies. Specifically, this paper asks
Tanya Matthan
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Between Now and Future Sovereignty: Indigenous Forestry in the Conjuncture
Abstract The participation of Indigenous nations in the industrial logging of their own territories has received scant attention in academic literature despite the challenges it poses for decolonial critiques of extractive industries and efforts of non‐Indigenous land defenders to build solidarity with Indigenous nations. Taking as a point of departure
Michael Simpson+2 more
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A Parasite Not a Cannibal? How the State and Capital Protect Accumulation Amid Devastation
Abstract Nancy Fraser's recent book, Cannibal Capitalism, breathes new life into the eco‐Marxist concept of the ecological contradiction, arguing capitalism destroys its own ecological conditions of possibility like a serpent eating its own tail. Fraser's thesis appears to be playing out in British Columbia forests, where industry is closing mills and ...
Rosemary Collard, Jessica Dempsey
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Housing Crisis or Immiseration? Revisiting the Housing Question under Urban Capitalism
Abstract The phrase “housing crisis” proliferates in media, politics, and scholarship, and has become the go‐to compound noun for depicting the urgency of the manifold social ills associated with widespread, deteriorating housing affordability. Instead of referring to a temporally and spatially bound event, however, the phrase now has become a ...
Ståle Holgersen, Timothy Blackwell
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Balance matters more: Research on the effect of corporate social responsibility equilibrium on stock price crash risk. [PDF]
Yu S, Tian M.
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Abstract By accounting for stakeholders' conflicting values, in this study, we argue that the conceptualization of stakeholder value trade‐offs can theoretically explain how stakeholder‐oriented managers can make value‐based decisions in pursuit of long‐term value creation for all stakeholders.
Aveed Raha, Seyed Hosein Kazemi
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