Rhetoric, argument and impression management in hostile takeover defence documents

Brennan, Niamh; Daly, Caroline; Harrington, Claire S.

doi:10.1016/j.bar.2010.07.008

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“…For this purpose, we extend the work of Brennan and Gray (2000) and Brennan et al (2010) on interaction during takeovers to a social and environmental context by building on the work of Coupland (2005) and Higgins and Walker (2012) on rhetoric and argument in social and environmental reporting.…”

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Rhetoric and Argument in Social and Environmental Reporting: The Dirty Laundry Case

Brennan

Merkl‐Davies

2013

SSRN Journal

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Purpose -This paper explores the interactive element in social and environmental reporting during a controversy between business organisations and a stakeholder over environmental performance.Design/methodology/approach -We adopt Aristotle's triangular framework of the rhetorical situation to examine how the writer, the audience, and the purpose of communication interact in the choice of rhetorical strategies used to persuade others of the validity and legitimacy of a claim during a public controversy. Our analysis focuses on the strategies (i.e., moves and their rhetorical realisations in the form of on logos (appealing to logic), ethos (appealing to authority), and pathos (appealing to emotion), with a particular emphasis on metaphor, used to achieve social and political goals. We base our analysis on a case study involving a conflict between Greenpeace and six organisations in the sportswear/fashion industry over wastewater discharge of hazardous chemicals. The conflict played out in a series of 20 press releases issued by the parties over a two-month period.Findings -All six firms interacting with Greenpeace in the form of press releases eventually conceded to Greenpeace's demand to eliminate hazardous chemicals from their supply chains.We attribute this to Greenpeace's ability to harness support from other key stakeholders and to use rhetoric effectively. Results show the extensive use of rhetoric by all parties.Originality/value -We regard legitimacy construction as reliant on communication and as being achieved by organisations participating in a dialogue with stakeholders. For this purpose, we develop an analytical framework which situates environmental reporting in a specific rhetorical situation and links rhetoric, argument, and metaphor.

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Rhetoric and Argument in Social and Environmental Reporting: The Dirty Laundry Case

Brennan

Merkl‐Davies

2013

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“…Este diseño simbólico se establece como criterio de verdad no solo en cuanto a la forma de presentar las imágenes, sino en los propios informes contables. Brennan, Daly & Harrington (2010) muestran cómo el énfasis visual se adapta a los atacantes y a los temas en defensa pública de adquisiciones hostiles. Por su parte, el trabajo de Courtis (2004) efectúa un estudio acerca de cómo el color se relaciona con el mayor o menor énfasis en revelar resultados positivos o negativos, y como este incide en las decisiones de inversión.…”

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Retórica y contabilidad: de la crítica retórica a la retórica crítica

Rojas

2016

Rev. fac. cien. econ.

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<em><span>Los estudios críticos del discurso contable, reiteran que la retórica es un instrumento al servicio de la dominación y desconocen los potenciales emancipadores que subyacen en su ejercicio deliberativo. Esto porque la consideran un dominio exclusivo de los grupos hegemónicos, y reducen el concepto a su aspecto discursivo, eliminando sus implicaciones éticas. Este artículo hace una revisión del tema, apelando a una metodología de tipo cualitativo, a partir de artículos de investigación publicados en revistas de contabilidad anglosajonas, que aparecen registradas en la base de datos Scopus. Se identifican algunas experiencias que reconocen en la retórica, un dominio necesario para emprender deliberaciones públicas desde lo contable. Se concluye que una retórica al servicio de la transformación de los lugares comunes y guiada por lo preferible, puede contribuir a la deliberación pública.</span></em>

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“…Clinch & Verrecchia, 1997;Fishman & Hagerty, 1998;Penman, 1980;Verrecchia, 1983). In what is often referred to as the "narrative turn" in accounting research (Beattie, 2014), numerous scholars approached the verbal components of corporate documents such as annual and quarterly reports, earning announcements and takeover documents (Brennan, 1999;Brennan, Daly, & Harrington, 2010;Craig, Amernic, & Tourish, 2010;Rutherford, 2005). Here, methods for qualitative content analysis of small samples of documents or case studies are increasingly preferred to quantitative approaches (e.g.…”

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Introduction to thematic section on text and discourse analysis in financial communication

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Palmieri

Gautier

2015

Studies in Communication Sciences

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Rhetoric, argument and impression management in hostile takeover defence documents

Abstract: Publication informationBritish Accounting Review, 42 (4) While exploratory in nature, this paper concludes with suggestions for future more systematic research allowing for greater generalisations from the findings.

Cited by 54 publications

References 47 publications

Rhetoric and Argument in Social and Environmental Reporting: The Dirty Laundry Case

Rhetoric and Argument in Social and Environmental Reporting: The Dirty Laundry Case

Retórica y contabilidad: de la crítica retórica a la retórica crítica

Introduction to thematic section on text and discourse analysis in financial communication

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