Understanding Communication of Sustainability Reporting: Application of Symbolic Convergence Theory (SCT)

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the nature of rhetoric and rhetorical strategies that are implicit in the standalone sustainability reporting of the top 24 companies of the Fortune 500 Global. We adopt Bormann’s (Q J Speech 58(4):396–407, 1972) SCT framework to study the rhetorical situa...

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Authors: Hossain, Mohammed (Author) ; Islam, Md. Tarikul (Author) ; Momin, Mahmood Ahmed (Author) ; Nahar, Shamsun (Author) ; Alam, Md. Samsul (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2019
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2019, Volume: 160, Issue: 2, Pages: 563-586
Further subjects:B Symbolic convergence theory
B Corporate social responsibility
B Rhetoric
B Sustainability reporting
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