Upcoming ABC conferences.(Conference news)
UPCOMING ABC CONFERENCES
Conference Location Program Chair
ABC 73rd Annual Hyatt Regency, Lana Carnes
Convention Lake Tahoe Resort . . .
Thinking and Interacting Like a Leader: The TILL System for
Effective Interpersonal Communication.(Book review)
Thinking and Interacting Like a Leader: The TILL System for
Effective Interpersonal Communication, by Kim Sydow Campbell. Chicago:
Parlay Press, 2006. 141 pp.
DOI: 10.1177/0021943608319389
For . . .
Why do we flirt? Flirting motivations and sex differences in
working and social contexts.(Report)
Employing worker and student samples, motivations to engage in
flirtatious communication are explored. Six flirting motivations,
derived from Henningsen, are considered. Differences across samples . . .
The learning history: analyzing an emerging genre.(genre
theory)(Report)
Contemporary genre theory contends that genres are flexible,
dynamic, and deeply, embedded within the institutional cultures that
created them. In this examination of the learning history, an . . .
Deception by design: figure ground and verbal illusion in direct
mail.(Report)
Analyzing illustrative set of direct mail messages, this article
explores textual strategies that invite readers to participate in their
own deception. These strategies, which include . . .
Performance appraisal interviews: preference organization in
assessment sequences.(Report)
Performance appraisal interviews play a crucial role in internal
communication. Most of the research on performance appraisal interviews
has focused on strategic aims and interview design, but less . . .
Are investors influenced by how earnings press releases are
written?(Report)
This two-part study begins with a rhetorical analysis of the genre
of earnings press releases. Then, a quantitative analysis uses capital
markets data to assess the investor impact of tone and . . .
Academic research: two things that get my goat--and three that
offer meaning.(Essay)
To begin, let me report that I started working on this article at
8:40 a.m. on July 1, 2007. I intended to begin on June 15 but I
procrastinated. Let me also add that I wrote all but the final . . .
Papers by the 2006 Kitty O. Locker Outstanding Researcher Award
recipient and respondent.(Ron Dulek)
At the 2007 Association for Business Communication Annual Meeting
in Washington, DC, the 2006 recipient of the Kitty O. Locker Outstanding
Researcher Award addressed the status of research and the . . .
Corporate social responsibility reporting in South Africa: a
descriptive and comparative analysis.(Report)
In this article, the authors compare the corporate social
responsibility reporting (CSRR) of companies--environment, human
relations, community, human rights, and diversio, dimensions--in . . .
Considering bias in government audit reports: factors that
influence the judgments of internal government auditors.(Report)
Government auditors collect data and assess, via written reports,
the operations of a government; however, little is known about what can
affect and govern their representations of those . . .
Toward a taxonomy of corporate reporting
strategies.(Report)
Studies of corporate reporting that focus on information disclosure
do so primarily from a mandatory, financial perspective owing the
decision to the rationality of corporate actors. Yet, social . . .
Upcoming ABC conferences.(Conference news)(Calendar)
UPCOMING ABC CONFERENCES
Conference Location Program Chair
ABC 73rd Annual Hyatt Regency, Lana Carnes
Convention Lake Tahoe Resort . . .
Investigating presentational change in U.K. annual reports: a
longitudinal perspective.(Report)
This article examines structural and format changes in annual
reports of U.K. listed companies from 1965 to 2004 with a particular
focus on graph use. The article compares a new sample of 2004 . . .
Annual report graphic use: a review of the literature.
Corporate annual reports typically include a narrative section and
a financial section. The narrative section is not scrutinized by
auditors as the financial section is, yet many readers rely . . .
Corporate risk reporting: a content analysis of narrative risk
disclosures in prospectuses.(Report)
This study examines whether companies report risk-relevant
information to protective investors. While corporate risk communication
is importantant for the well-functioning of capital markets, our . . .
The mission statement: a corporate reporting tool with a past,
present, and future.(Report)
This article discusses a comprehensive study of the mission
statements of Fortune 1000 higher-performing and lower-performing firms
to assess the current state of the mission statement. After . . .
Introduction to the business communication of corporate
reporting: a special issue.
This special issue of Journal of Business Communication, on the
Business Communication of Corporate Reporting, started as an idea
between Editor Margaret Graham and John Penrose, was given . . .
Upcoming ABC conferences.(Conference news)(Calendar)
UPCOMING ABC CONFERENCES
Conference Location Program Chair
ABC Southwestern U.S. Hyatt Regency Ann Wilson
Conference Houston, Texas . . .
The Economics of Attention: Style and Substance in the Age of
Information.(Book review)
The Economics of Attention: Style and Substance in the Age of
Information, by Richard A. Lanham. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
2006. 312 pp.
This is a clever, witty, and engaging--if at . . .
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