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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study theorises and empirically tests performative purpose alignment theory (PPAT), which conceptualises corporate purpose as a performative artefact materialised through discursive and multimodal signals. To operationalise this, we introduced the SDG–Purpose Alignment Index (SPAI), a computational construct that quantifies the thematic ...
Augustine Okeke, Ifeanyi Ugbebor
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Environmental sustainability and the broader Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) agenda have become prominently proclaimed organisational priorities, yet their integration into core decision‐making remains uneven. While greenwashing research has largely focused on communication and disclosure, it has paid less attention to the internal ...
Olayiwola Oladiran +4 more
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All Quiet on the Luxury Front: How and When Sustainability Labels Influence Purchase Behavior
Journal of Consumer Behaviour, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As luxury brands launch sustainability initiatives and products, they face significant challenges, including the need to effectively communicate their practices to consumers. The current research draws on semiotics theory to explore how and when distinct types of sustainability labels, indexical and iconic, enhance brand authenticity ...
Shelly Rathee +2 more
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A Framework for Impression Management in Extra‐Financial Reporting
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines how organisations employ impression management tactics in extra‐financial reporting, particularly in the context of environmental, social and governance (ESG) concerns. As stakeholder scrutiny and regulatory expectations intensify, organisations increasingly shape non‐financial disclosures to influence perceptions of ...
Laura Ribeiro +3 more
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The Role of Visual Metaphor in Visual Genres
In the last decades metaphor has been a paramount research topic within the Cognitive Metaphor Theory. Although initially linguistic metaphor received most attention, in recent years the research focus has shifted from verbal metaphor to other types of ...
Isabel Negro
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Thresholds: The metaphorical foundations of powerful knowledge
The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This paper advances a theoretical account of threshold concepts as metaphorical‐relational structures that reorganise meaning across contexts. Building on conceptual metaphor theory, we propose that threshold concepts can be understood as sites of schema‐level reorganisation: deep, embodied patterns of relational logic that scaffold abstract ...
Maria Karrol +1 more
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Del testimonio al activismo: la dimensión política de la novela gráfica sobre emigración
Studia Romanica PosnaniensiaThis article examines the political dimension of three Spanish graphic novels – La grieta (Spottorno & Abril, 2016), Asylum (Isusi, 2017), and El cielo en la cabeza (Altarriba, García & Moral, 2023) – focused on forced migration.
Magda Potok
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 This study investigates the relative impact of textual claims and visual metaphors displayed on the product’s package on consumers’ flavor experience and product evaluation.
Anna Fenko +2 more
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The Visual Representation of a Systematic Metaphor in a UK Media Text
, 2016 Much has been written on the organizational power of metaphor in discourse, eg on metaphor ‘chains’ and ‘clusters’ of linguistic metaphor in discourse (Koller 2003, Cameron & Stelma 2004, Semino 2008) and the role of extended and systematic metaphor in ...
Denroche, C.
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The Crowd: Zooming in on Social Behaviour
European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The direct observation of social behaviour has almost completely vanished from socialpsychological research, in favour of studies of attitudes, identities and cognitions. Using crowd psychology as an illustration, this article argues for a renewed focus on observational research enabled by recent technological advances, including high ...
Tom Postmes, Armin Seyfried, Anna Sieben
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