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McCarthy, Nigel Thomas Fiaschi. "The development of economic and business news on Australian television." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1773.
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Television is the favoured news source for most Australians and is regarded as having the potential to influence public opinion. From its inception however, television has been regarded as ill-suited to cover economic and business issues because of a perceived reliance on visual material and an inability to deal with complex issues. This tyranny of vision has been mitigated by technological developments such as electronic news gathering (ENG) and satellites that provide large amounts of varied material as well as improvements in production tools that assist the visual presentation of abstract concepts. The presentation of complex issues has also been enhanced by the increased skills and knowledge among newsworkers. Economic and business news has become a staple in television news programs and has evolved from ritualised reporting of data such as market indices and exchange rates to a genre that shares broader news values such as consequence, conflict, proximity, human interest, novelty, prominence, political controversy and scandal. Economic and business news also shares the normal imperatives of television such as a strong reliance on scheduled occasions and reliable and prolific sources. In between occasions of economic, business and political controversy or scandal, these programs are able to rely on a steady supply of economic, business and investment information. Dedicated economic and business segments and programs and now even whole channels meet two sets of demands. One is those of niche audiences seeking news and information on economic and business conditions, economic debate and policy making, the activities of economic and business leaders and an opportunity to hear and observe economic and business leaders. The other is from broadcasters seeking to maximise their profits by attracting viewers in the AB demographic (those with the greatest disposal income) to otherwise poorly-performing time slots, by broadcasters seeking an inexpensive and dependable supply of programming material and by broadcasters seeking to promote their institutional role and specific programs through presenting material that is followed up by other media. Economic and business reports however, continue to portray issues in a limited way that neglects business’s interaction with workers and the larger social environment. Economic events are often framed as political competition. These reports present a hierarchy of sources and privilege political and business elites. Television news favours debate that is presented by individuals as contrasting causal narratives. Political and economic sources have become adept at presenting brief causal narratives in response to the requirements of television. This approach highlights celebrities and favours the promotion of agency over structure. The increase in total economic and business reporting boosts the interdependence of television and political and economic sources. Technological development is continuing and traditional free-to-air television audiences are being eroded by pay television and the internet. Although these are altering the nature of political, economic and business debate their overall influence is difficult to determine.
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McCarthy, Nigel Thomas Fiaschi. "The development of economic and business news on Australian television." University of Sydney, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1773.
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Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Television is the favoured news source for most Australians and is regarded as having the potential to influence public opinion. From its inception however, television has been regarded as ill-suited to cover economic and business issues because of a perceived reliance on visual material and an inability to deal with complex issues. This tyranny of vision has been mitigated by technological developments such as electronic news gathering (ENG) and satellites that provide large amounts of varied material as well as improvements in production tools that assist the visual presentation of abstract concepts. The presentation of complex issues has also been enhanced by the increased skills and knowledge among newsworkers. Economic and business news has become a staple in television news programs and has evolved from ritualised reporting of data such as market indices and exchange rates to a genre that shares broader news values such as consequence, conflict, proximity, human interest, novelty, prominence, political controversy and scandal. Economic and business news also shares the normal imperatives of television such as a strong reliance on scheduled occasions and reliable and prolific sources. In between occasions of economic, business and political controversy or scandal, these programs are able to rely on a steady supply of economic, business and investment information. Dedicated economic and business segments and programs and now even whole channels meet two sets of demands. One is those of niche audiences seeking news and information on economic and business conditions, economic debate and policy making, the activities of economic and business leaders and an opportunity to hear and observe economic and business leaders. The other is from broadcasters seeking to maximise their profits by attracting viewers in the AB demographic (those with the greatest disposal income) to otherwise poorly-performing time slots, by broadcasters seeking an inexpensive and dependable supply of programming material and by broadcasters seeking to promote their institutional role and specific programs through presenting material that is followed up by other media. Economic and business reports however, continue to portray issues in a limited way that neglects business’s interaction with workers and the larger social environment. Economic events are often framed as political competition. These reports present a hierarchy of sources and privilege political and business elites. Television news favours debate that is presented by individuals as contrasting causal narratives. Political and economic sources have become adept at presenting brief causal narratives in response to the requirements of television. This approach highlights celebrities and favours the promotion of agency over structure. The increase in total economic and business reporting boosts the interdependence of television and political and economic sources. Technological development is continuing and traditional free-to-air television audiences are being eroded by pay television and the internet. Although these are altering the nature of political, economic and business debate their overall influence is difficult to determine.
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Tyler, Andrew Miles. "The News Director's Balance of Business and News : an oral history exploration of Salt Lake Television News, 1948 - 2008 /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2010. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd3495.pdf.
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Schneider, Kim-Fredrik Wilhelm. "Zatso, Inc. or Reporting profit: an historical study of the business of new media news." Thesis, Boston University, 2001. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/27760.
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Kasoff, Betty Lee. "Chinese use of English in business texts: strategies for communicating bad news /." The Ohio State University, 1996. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487931993470016.
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Dobos, Jean A. "A social ecology study of media competition and managerial gratifications from business news /." The Ohio State University, 1986. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487266011221537.
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Hoque, Rafsanul. "Satisfaction with and perceptions of news media performance with alienation from government and business corporations: An Ohio case study." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1557843668747244.
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Raviola, Elena. "Paper meets web : how the institution of news production works on paper and online." Doctoral thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, ESOL (Entrepreneurship, Strategy, Organization, Leadership), 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-13828.
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The dissertation investigates the institution of news production at work, on paper and online, through an ethnographic study at the largest Italian financial newspaper Il Sole-24 Ore. Building on institutional theory and taking inspiration from Bordieu’s theoretical apparatus describing how cultural capital works, the dissertation presents a framework for the way institutions work, a framework that echoes Mary Douglas’ How Institutions Think (1987). In the space created by the relationships between objects, practices and labels, institutions are at work in the alignments, disarrangements, re-alignments and new alignments among objects, practices and labels. This study examines the encounter between old and new to aid in the understanding of the workings of institutions, because the workings of institutions are made more visible in this encounter between aliens. Empirically, the occasion is the encounter between the newspaper and the website in the framework of the newspaper-website integration project at Il Sole-24 Ore. The main story line develops as follows: An old alignment around the newspaper (old object), to which old practices called journalistic (label) were aligned, is disarranged by the encounter with the website (new object), which is alien to the newspaper and carries new practices for making news. As a consequence of this encounter, the newspaper and the website vacillate between old and new practices and new alignments and realignments are formed: In these movements the institution of news production can be seen at work. This study offers a new perspective on the way institutions work, with serious consideration for the material, practical, and linguistic dimensions of institutions. It opens the black box of institutions, unpacking their workings in an attempt to clarify how stability of institutions results from the work of practices, objects and labels, which are products of institutions and at the same time produce them. Regarding news production in practice, this study aims at inspiring a reflection around what a newspaper is, a question at the very core of the industry transformation at the turn of the 21st century. By focusing on a highly debated topic, the study also offers reflections on the broader societal implications of new media for politics, business, knowledge, and professions.
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Wiedmaier, Stacy M. "BACKPEDALING NUGGET SMUGGLERS: A FACEBOOK AND NEWS ARTICLE THEMATIC ANALYSIS OF CHICK-FIL-A VS. GAY MARRIAGE." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/487.
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This study utilizes William Benoit’s Image Repair Theory to frame the dominant crisis communication strategies that fast food chain Chick-fil-A (CFA) employed before, during and after their CEO mixed his personal opinion on social issues with corporate policy in June 2012. The thematic analysis draws from three distinct data sets that include 3,900 Facebook comments posted by the general public on CFA’s social media page, 32 individual Atlanta Journal-Constitution news articles that address the debate and CFA’s public response to the crisis titled “Who We Are.” This thesis aims to identify both the dominant themes in Facebook posts and the news articles, as well as how these themes are situated within Benoit’s Image Repair Theory.
Research shows that CFA representatives utilized eight of Benoit’s 14 strategies to address their CEO’s comments on gay marriage in an attempt to salvage their reputation. The transcendence strategy was used more than any other throughout the crisis. The thematic analysis of Facebook comments showed that religion and loyalty were the most addressed theme within social media users’ posts on the company’s page. Research also shows that a national boycott initiated against CFA by the LGBTQ community did not hurt the company, but may have helped to spur brand recognition and overall sales.
Another pertinent question arose during this research; did company representatives purposely forgo sharing their 2011 and 2012 tax documents that prove they had already stopped contributing to supposed anti-gay organizations more than a year before the controversy arose? Was CFA benefiting from the crisis to such an extent that they strategically remained silent and allowed the misconception to take place when they could have ended the crisis and shown proof?
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Christensson, Ellinor, and Emilia Markert. "Två versioner av en händelse : En fallstudie om marknadskommunikation och förhållandet mellan nyhetsmedia och PR-utövare." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Akademin för textil, teknik och ekonomi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-22399.
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År 2017 publicerades en artikel av svensk massmedia i samband med metoo- rörelsen. Artikeln rörde sexuella övergrepp av en känd profil med mycket makt inom svensk finkultur. Mannen hade nära samband med den välkända institutionen Svenska Akademien. Redan 1997 uppmärksammades anklagelserna gentemot mannen av kvällstidningen Expressen. Trots det hanterades inte anklagelserna förrän en ny artikel publicerades av Dagens Nyheter 21 år senare. Studien undersöker dels varför nyheten fick plats på medieagendan både 1997 samt 2017 samt om de två artiklarna vinklats. Studien undersöker sambandet mellan media och PR-utövare. Rapporteringen studeras genom teorierna om nyhetsvärderingens glasögon och tar utgångspunkt i marknadskommunikation. Studiens analysavsnitt utgörs först av en övergripande kvalitativ innehållsanalys, därefter följer en ytterligare mer djupgående kvalitativ innehållsanalys av Expressens och Dagens Nyheters artiklar. De första två analysmetoderna ämnar till att besvara varför händelsen fått plats på medieagendan, enligt nyhetsvärderingsteorier. Vidare används en tredje kvalitativinnehållsanalytisk metod som ämnar att på en mer tolkande nivå granska om och hur de tvåartiklarna vinklades i media. På så sätt besvaras studiens båda forskningsfrågor. De största skillnaderna mellan hur artiklarna framställs låg i vem som fick komma till tals samt hur stort utrymme och den grad av seriositet händelsen gavs då den publicerades. Artiklarna skildes även åt i fråga om värdeladdade ordval samt i hur journalisten valde att framställa texten. En stor skillnad var också i vilken tid händelsen uppmärksammades. Studien granskade en händelse där tiden utvisat att hur en nyhetsartikel framställs kan påverka allmänhetens bild av verkligheten samt allmänhetens inställning till en institution. Genom studien vill vi belysa att nyhetsmedia utgör en central roll i samhället och att de ansvarar för att delge en sanningsenlig och verklighetstrogen bild av omvärlden. Därför är det viktigt att uppmärksamma olika versioner av samma händelse som publicerats i media, vilket är vad studien ämnat att göra.As a part of the emersion of the so called metoo -movement in 2017, an article was published by the Swedish mass media. The article concerned allegations of sexual abuse against a highly esteemed and powerful profile within the Swedish cultural scene. The accused man had a close connection to the well known institution the Swedish Academy. The study is based on marketing communication and focuses on the relationship between news media and public relations-strategists. Claims of sexual abuse had previously been brought to attention by the evening newspaper Expressen in 1997. Even so, the accusations were not dealt with until the second article was published by Dagens Nyheter 21 years later. The study investigates partly why these events were selected to be published as news both in 1997 and in 2017.Furthermore, the study investigates whether the two articles were angled according to theories of newsworthiness. The first part of the study's analysis consists of an overall qualitative content analysis, then it continues with a further more in-depth qualitative content analysis of Expressen's and Dagens Nyheter's articles. The first two methods of analysis aim to answer the first research question, why the event took place on the media agenda, according to theories of newsworthiness. In order to answer the study’s second research question a third qualitative content analysis model is used. It aims to examine how the two articles were angled in the media at a more interpretative level. The study dealt with an event where time has shown that the same event could cause different outcomes and consequences for PR-strategists depending on what insight the public gain through news media and depending on how the news article was produced. We found that the main differences between the articles were; who got to speak and how much space and the degree of seriousness the event was given when it was published. We wish to shed light on the fact that the news media play a central role in informing society and that they are responsible for sharing a truthful and realistic image of the world. Therefore, it is important to pay attention to the possible lack of such truthful versions in the media. Two articles published by the media have been addressed in the study. The study is written in Swedish.
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Hallin, Hanna. "Mediating Economic Growth : A Narrative Analysis of News in Times of India and Dagens Nyheter." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, JMK, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-157035.
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The necessity of economic growth is a conventional wisdom of our time, assumed to lead to more prosperity and be a panacea for any societal problem. However, infinite economic growth is hard to reconcile with a finite planet, and there is a growing body of evidence that suggests that growth is no panacea nor inherently linked to prosperity. With the starting point that news media is of ideological importance, this study investigates how the hegemony of growth (as it has been called by Schmelzer [2016]) is perpetuated in news. Through a narrative analysis of articles from 2017, from Dagens Nyheter (DN) and Times of India (TOI) it analyses how news describes benefits of GDP growth, constructs stakeholders in relation to it, and discusses the ideological implications of these portrayals. The results show that the basic narratives are similar in both newspapers and primarily describe economic growth as desirable, without any references to contested status of the ability of growth to lead to prosperity – perpetuating the hegemony of growth. Many position the state as responsible for generating growth, others describe corporate growth as something good in and of itself, and the narratives create a ‘we’ in relation to ‘the economy’. These are narratives with implications for how societies negotiate between economic growth and competing goals, e.g. keeping within the planetary boundaries. Further, as growth cannot be assumed to automatically lead to ‘better’, this has implications for how journalistic autonomy should be perceived in relation to economic reporting.
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Bosman, Dirk Johannes. "The perceived credibility of electronic word-of-mouth communicaton on e-commerce platforms." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/71818.
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Thesis (MComm)--Stellenbosch University, 2012.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Enterprises and more specifically, marketing departments, function in a complex global market, while trying to deliver products and services to satisfy the needs of consumers. It is estimated that by 2013, enterprises will be spending $4.75 trillion and consumers $330 billion by means of commercial transactions over the Internet, and that by 2050 most transactions – if not all transactions – will be e-commerce based (Laudon and Traver, 2010:1-7). The 24-hour access to a global network of markets has brought about two major challenges for most enterprises. Firstly, the Internet as a publishing platform has exponentially increased the creation and sharing of information, which has significantly increased consumers’ search cost; and secondly, as more electronic word-of-mouth (EWOM) is being generated online, a significant amount of power and influence over enterprises has shifted to consumers (Chen, Wu and Yoon, 2004:716-722; Tapscott and Williams, 2008:52-53). Ultimately, enterprises are challenged to harness the power of EWOM for more successful e-commerce strategies and increased market share. Given previous studies, it was possible to extend the theoretical framework of EWOM communication in the fields of Internet marketing and online consumer behaviour. The purpose of this study was to create two models that could measure, over time, the impact of EWOM review communication on an e-commerce platform, specifically with regard to review credibility and sales levels. In using a non-probability judgement sampling procedure, it emerged that EWOM reviews do indeed influence the sales levels of e-commerce platform Amazon.com, and that certain review factors (platform, text length, time and star ratings) significantly influenced the credibility of Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com reviews. Furthermore, it was concluded that the overall credibility of reviews increases over time as more and more online users have the ability to scrutinise it. When Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com’s reviews were compared to each other, the results indicated that Amazon.com had more reviews than Barnesandnoble.com, and that the reviews posted at Amazon.com had on average longer text lengths and were found to be more helpful than the reviews at Barnesandnoble.com. The study's major contribution is that it provides wide-ranging guidelines for usability and user experience design, sales and inventory forecasting, as well as benchmark statistics for marketing campaigns.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Ondernemings, en in die besonder bemarkingsafdelings, funksioneer in ‘n komplekse globale mark, in hulle strewe om voortdurend produkte en dienste te lewer wat voldoen aan verbruikersbehoeftes. Na raming sal ondernemings teen die jaar 2013 $4.75 triljoen en verbruikers $330 biljoen spandeer aan kommersiële transaksies oor die Internet, terwyl die meeste, indien nie alle transaksies, teen die jaar 2050 gebaseer gaan wees op e-handel (Laudon en Traver, 2010:1-7). Die 24-uur toegang tot ‘n globale netwerk van markte het twee hoofuitdagings vir die meeste ondernemings tot gevolg. In die eerste plek het die Internet as uitgewersplatform die skep en verspreiding van inligting eksponensieel laat toeneem, wat verbruikers se soekkoste noemenswaardig verhoog het; en tweedens, namate elektroniese hoorsê aanlyn gegenereer word, het ‘n beduidende hoeveelheid mag en invloed van ondernemings na die verbruiker verskuif (Chen, Wu en Yoon, 2004:716-722; Tapscott en Williams, 2008:52-53). Ondernemings word dus uitgedaag om die impak van elektroniese hoorsê (electronic word-of-mouth) te ontgin om meer suksesvolle e-handelstrategieë en verhoogde winste te verkry. In die lig van vorige studies was dit moontlik om die tradisionele teoretiese raamwerk van hoorsêkommunikasie uit te brei na die veld van Internet-bemarking en verbruikersgedrag. Die doel van hierdie studie was om twee modelle te ontwikkel wat, met verloop van tyd, die impak van elektroniese hoorsêkommunikasie op ‘n e-handelplatform kon meet, met spesifieke verwysing na resensiegeloofwaardigheid en verkoopsvlakke van boeke. Deur die gebruik van ‘n nie-waarskynlikheidsoordeel steekproefprosedure, het die studie bevind dat elektroniese hoorsêresensies inderdaad ‘n invloed het op die verkoopsvlakke van elektroniese e-handelplatforms en dat sekere resensiefaktore (platform, teks, lengte, tyd en stergradering) die geloofwaardigheid van elektroniese e-handelplatforms se resensies beduidend beïnvloed het. Verder is die gevolgtrekking gemaak dat die oorhoofse geloofwaardigheid van resensies toeneem namate al hoe meer aanlynverbruikers die vermoë het om dit onder oë te kry. In ‘n vergelyking tussen die resensies van twee e-handel platforms Amazon.com en Barnesandnoble.com, is bevind dat Amazon.com meer resensies as Barnesandnoble.com het, dat die resensies op Amazon.com gemiddeld langer tekste het, en ook meer behulpsaam uit ‘n verbruikersoogpunt is as die resensies op Barnesandnoble.com. Die hoofbydrae van hierdie studie is dat dit riglyne bied aan e-handelplatforms om hul kliënte se verbruikerservaring beter te verstaan, en om sodoende beter verkope- en voorraadvooruitskattings te kan maak. Verder bied die studie ook riglyne t.o.v. doeltreffende bemarkingsveldtogte vir e-handelplatforms.
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Macdonald, Julie Susan. "Who talks, what they talk about, and how much they say : a study of bulletin structure and source use in New Zealand free-to-air television news programmes : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Management in Communication Management, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand." Massey University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10179/922.
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Free-to-air television news is an accessible and popular means through which audiences can gain knowledge and understanding about the world. Therefore, the nature of the news provided has important implications for the opportunities audiences have to become informed about events and issues, and to use this knowledge to participate in social decision-making. The structure and content of news bulletins reflect the decisions made by broadcasters about the topics that are considered to be important, and which sources should have the opportunity to be represented. Thus, the goal of this research was to compare the structure and content of the news provided by New Zealand’s national free-to-air news programmes; ONE News (TVNZ), 3 News (TV3), Prime News (Prime Television), and Te K ea (M ori Television). A content analysis of one constructed week of the four news programmes was undertaken, focusing on four general areas of interest. First, the profile of the news bulletins was examined (i.e., the proportion of the bulletin allocated to different segments of the news, the duration of main news stories, the origin of production of main news stories, the proportion of New Zealand and international news, and the topics included in the news). Second, the research investigated the identity of the types of sources selected by the broadcasters for inclusion in locally produced main news stories. Third, the frequency and duration of élite and non-élite source speech was examined. Finally, the extent to which journalists speak on camera in news stories was also investigated. The study showed that the four programmes generally conformed to the ‘standard profile’ of modern television news bulletins; the programmes included considerable amounts of non-news content and the news topics often reflected entertainment values, rather than focusing on serious issues. A further significant characteristic of the bulletins was that élite sources were more likely to be included in news stories on all programmes and generally had greater opportunities to speak. However, in many respects it appears that Te K ea provides an alternative news bulletin compared to the other three channels, by focusing on a wider range of news topics, including more non-élite sources in stories, and giving all sources considerably more time to share their views. Te K ea seems to broadcast a news programme that makes a compromise between the entertainment values which are entrenched in contemporary television news, and the broader M ori Television mandate to inform and educate the public. This contrasts with the more homogenous (in terms of the characteristics examined in this research) news programmes offered by the ONE News, 3 News, and Prime News. This study concludes that the nationally available free-to-air news programmes currently broadcast on New Zealand television fulfil the traditional news functions of informing and educating the public in only a very narrow sense. The deregulated news environment is poised to undergo further transformation with an anticipated increase in convergence among news media and the emergence of more television news providers. The challenge within this commercial environment is for ONE News, 3 News, Prime News, and Te K ea to deliver on their stated commitments to provide information and promote debate on the important issues of the day.
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Mukwevho, Tshifhiwa. "When is bad news for the market really bad news?" Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/53719.
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ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Investors often question the extent to which the state of the market affects returns in investment finance, and seek answers as to whether the market response to bad and good news is dependent on the level of the market. If this is true, investors who have the ability to identify events can make substantial amounts of money by identifying the state of the market before investing. This would then be in violation of the efficient market hypothesis. This study used the Conrad, Cornell and Landsman (2002) model to investigate whether the share price's response to bad news in South Africa changes with the relative level of the market. Conrad, et al. (2002) found enough evidence that the market's response to bad news increases with the increase in relative level of the market. Bhana (1996) supported this notion when he reported that investors overreacted to companies that announced negative earnings. A sample analysis of this study produced regression equations with insignificant unexpected earnings coefficients. One of the notable factors was that, for some observations, the retained earnings moved in the opposite direction with the unexpected earnings shocks. Malan (1998) found similar market reaction when he investigated the overreaction theory using three indices from Johannesburg Stock Exchange and he reported that the market could not distinguish between bad and good news as the results for both bad and good news yield either positive or negative abnormal returns. After introducing additional variables to allow for these opposite movements, CHANGE, the regression equation produced significant regression coefficients. The results of the study were directly opposite to the findings of Conrad, et al. (2002) and those in other existing literature. These indicated that the market responds strongly to good news in both good and bad market states. The study concludes by suggesting further areas for future research.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Beleggers bevraagteken dikwels die mate waarin die opbrengste in beleggingsfinansies deur marktoestande beïnvloed word, en wil weet of die markreaksie op slegte of goeie nuus van markvlakke afhang. Indien dit waar is, kan beleggers wat die vermoë het om vooraf gebeure te identifiseer, aansienlike hoeveelhede geld maak deur die toestand van die mark te bepaal voor hulle geld belê. Dit sal dan teenstrydig wees met die Doeltreffende markhipotese. Hierdie studie gebruik die Conrad, Cornell en Landsman-model (2002) om uit te vind of die aandeleprys se reaksie op slegte nuus in Suid-Afrika saam met die relatiewe vlak van die mark verander. Conrad, et al. (2002) het voldoende bewyse gevind dat die mark se reaksie op slegte nuus toeneem soos die relatiewe vlak van die mark toeneem. Bhana (1996) het hierdie gedagte ondersteun toe hy berig het dat beleggers oorreageer wanneer maatskappye negatiewe verdienste aankondig. 'n Steekproefontleding in hierdie studie het regressievergelykings met onbeduidende onverwagte verdienste-koëffisiënte gelewer. Een van die belangrikste faktore was dat die teruggehoue verdienste by sommige waarnemings in die teenoorgestelde rigting beweeg het met onverwagte verdienste-skokke. Malan (1998) het 'n soortgelyke markreaksie gevind toe hy die oorreaksie-teorie ondersoek het deur drie indekse van die Johannesburgse aandelebeurs te gebruik. Hy het berig dat die mark nie tussen slegte en goeie nuus kon onderskei nie omdat die resultate vir slegte sowel as goeie nuus positiewe of negatiewe abnormale opbrengste lewer. Nadat bykomende veranderlikes ingebring is om voorsiening vir hierdie teenoorgestelde bewegings te maak, het die regressievergelyking beduidende regressiekoëffisiënte opgelewer. Die resultate van hierdie studie staan lynreg teenoor die bevindinge van Conrad, et al. (2002) en dié van ander bestaande literatuur. Dit dui daarop dat die mark sterk reageer op goeie nuus in goeie sowel as swak marktoestande. Die studie word afgesluit met voorstelle vir verdere navorsing op hierdie gebied.
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Xu, Haitao. "Investigating Fraudulent and Privacy Activities in Online Business." W&M ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1593092112.
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Miller, Karen L. "The stocks paradox what is the impact on business-news sections and business-news staff when newspapers cut stock listings? /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/5985.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007.The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on April 14, 2008) Includes bibliographical references.
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Athanassopoulou, Pinelopi. "Developer - customer communication in successful new service development." Thesis, City University London, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.390938.
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Lemon, James Edward. "The Corporate Connection Broadcast News as a Business." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/292233.
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Roehm, Harper. "Persuasion and the new media : interactive marketing communications and attitude change processes." Connect to resource, 1999. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=osu1261236409.
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Olsson, Vesga Victor. "A MARKET-CENTRIC APPROACH TO NEW MEDIA BUSINESS : LTE-BROADCAST AS A BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY WITHIN THE DIGITAL SIGNAGE MARKET." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för datavetenskap och kommunikation (CSC), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-170575.
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With a growing number of connected devices and an increased market penetration for wireless and cellular technologies, it has become more and more important to understand how new technologies can be leveraged in existing markets to further understand their overall impact on society as a whole. This master thesis aims to investigate potential business opportunities for a new communications technology within an existing market. This new technology, known as LTE-Broadcast, is an evolution of cellular 4G technologies, which allows content to be broadcasted throughout a cellular network. The thesis focuses on the digital signage market and uses it as context in which to investigate potential business opportunities. Digital signage, in short, refers to the use of digital screens as a medium for communication. This thesis therefore intends to understand how LTE-Broadcast can be leveraged as a viable business option within the digital signage market by perusing both a global and national perspective of the market. By investigating and analyzing a global perspective and a national perspective, in the form of the Swedish digital signage market, a clear picture of the value LTE-Broadcast can generate within digital signage is achieved. This, consequently, allows for the identification and conceptualizing of a viable business model for Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) while leveraging LTE-Broadcast in the digital signage market. The research, conclusively, allows for a clear understanding of the model’s scalability. Ultimately, the understanding of the technology’s viability within a given market will influence its successful adoption in society and its potential utilization by MNOs to create a sustainable competitive advantage within the digital signage market.
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Gortz, Christoph Gerhard. "Essays in business cycles : news, learning and financial intermediation." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.555509.
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For a long time shifts in agents expectations have been believed to have impor- tant implications upon aggregate fluctuations, but have received relatively little attention among macroeconomists. Not only have the dot-com boom and the Great Recession led to a revival of this idea, they have placed it firmly at the centre of a new wave of research about the impact of expectations and news. This thesis contributes to a better understanding of the role of news for busi- ness cycle fluctuations. Particular attention is paid to news and anticipation effects in conjunction with learning and the role of financial intermediation.
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Grandin, Ruben, and Eric Forsberg. "You won’t believe what we found out about online news! : Clickbaiting and the influence on brand trust in online news media." Thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Institutionen för ekonomi, teknik och samhälle, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-64548.
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The internet is changing the game for traditional print media, newspapers are now forced to move onto the web. The adjustment from print to the web has created a highly competitive market for most news brands. The increasing amount of information online which is constantly being pushed on the consumer’s from way too many different sources is creatinga different atmosphere for journalists. The need to stay competitive is generating new strategies for the online news brands trying to stay relevant. A new growing phenomenon in this atmosphere is called clickbaiting, which is best described by an exaggerated headline with little or no connection to the content that the article actually leads too. Focusing on the number of clicks the articles can get, instead of satisfying the consumers need. A gap in literature was identified between building long lasting trust relationship and the current online news media market. This study aim to find the most important factors that influence the consumers trust for clickbaiting online news brands. This was done through an exploration of the influential factors of online brand trust where six underlying factors of online brand trust was identified. Quantitative data was collected through an online survey, asking students of Luleå University of Technology their thoughts about trust in clickbaiting online news sites. A total of 197 full answers were collected and then analyzed through the use of statistical techniques. The conclusions from the data analysis suggested that a combination of the underlying factors brand reputation and good online experience was the most influential for explaining online brand trust. Implying that in practice, a consumer is likely to have a high trust for a clickbaiting news site that consistently provide a positive experience for the consumer, while still keeping up an image of being a reputable news site.
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Swanepoel, Werner. "Innovative internal communication of a new strategic plan : a case study with critical analysis." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/18164.
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Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2008.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The real-life problem in strategy communication is generally defined as that strategic plans are not generally well communicated to the workforce and therefore not executed to their full potential. This leads to subordinate problems such as that the strategic plan is not bought into by the employees, which leads to a lack of commitment and involvement. When not well understood, the strategic plan loses its motivational power because employees do not know what their role is. The strategy thus is not likely to have the desired effect on the market. Isolated cases of successful communication and implementation of company strategic plans do exist, which raises the question of what is required from an internal strategy communication plan, and what makes it successful. The research report attempts to answer this question and hence contribute to this knowledge field to benefit future implementers. The literature was reviewed on current approaches to establish criteria for successfully communicating a strategic plan, and a successful communication strategy used at Sishen Iron Ore Mine was documented as a case study and critically analysed. Recommendations for future implementations as well as further research were made. This report identified five main groups of requirements for a successful implementation communication strategy. These areas include the need to engage in two-way dialogue, the need to repeat the message, the need to plan the communication rollout, the important role of the middle manager and the need to show the bigger picture. The methodology is more important than the medium (visual, auditory) used. It is further concluded that, if the skill levels of the workforce differ significantly. it may be necessary to have two or more different communication strategies. Simply delegating the responsibility of communication to subordinates creates the risk of failure. It is recommended that middle managers be trained for this purpose and that the progress in each department be appropriately monitored.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die praktiese probleem in strategie kommunikasie is dat strategiese planne nie gekommunikeer word nie en dus nie tot die volle potentiaal uitegvoer word nie. Dit lei tot ondergeskikte probleme soos dat daar nie inkoop is in die strategiese plan of intensie nie wat beteken daar is 'n tekort aan toewyding en betrokkendheid. Die strategiese plan word ook nie goed verstaan nie en verloor sy motiverings krag omdat werknemers nie weet wat hulle rol is nie. Die hele strategie het nie die verlangde effek op die mark nie. Geïsoleerde gevalle van suksesvolle kommunikasie en implimentering word gevind, wat die vraag laat ontstaan; wat word verlang van 'n interne strategiese kommuniksie plan en wat maak dit dus suksesvol. Die navorsingsverslag probeer die vraag beantwoord en sodoende bydrae tot die kennis veld om toekomstige implementeerders te bevoordeel. 'n Literatuur studie is voltooi op die huidige benaderings om kriteria vas te stel vir die suksesvolle kommunikasie van 'n strategiese plan. 'n Suksesvolle kommunikasie strategie wat gevolg is by Sishen Ystererts Myn is gedokumenteer as 'n gevalle studie en krities geevalueer. Aanbevelings is gemaak vir sowel toekomstige implementerings as ook verdere navorsing. Die verslag het vyf hoof groepe van vereistes geïdentifiseer vir die suksesvolle implementerings kommunikasie strategie. Hierdie areas bestaan uit die noodsaaklikheid vir twee rigting gesprek, die vereiste om die boodskap te herhaal, die belangrikheid om die kommunikasie strategie goed te beplan, die rol van die middel bestuurder en die noodsaaklikheid om die groter prentjie te wys. Die metodologie is belangriker as die medium (visueel, auditer) wat gebruik word. Dit word verder aanbeveel dat, indien die vaardigheidsvlak van die organisasie baie verskil, dit nodig mag wees om twee verskillende kommunikasie strategieë te ontwikkel. Om eenvoudig die verantwoordelikheid van kommunikasie na ondergeskiktes te delegeer skep die risiko van faaling. Dit word voorgestel dat middel bestuurders opgelei word vir die doel en dat die vordering in elke departement dienooreenkomstig gemonitor word.
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CAPELLANI, DANIELLE ZUMA. "THE RETHORIC OF NEUTRALITY IN NEWS REPORTS IN BUSINESS JOURNALISM." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2010. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=16830@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROCOORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
A presente tese propõe uma discussão sobre a postura neutralística (Heritage; Greatbatch, 1991) adotada nas reportagens de capa da Revista Exame, da editora Abril, publicadas no ano de 2005. As reportagens são analisadas a partir das estratégias argumentativas (Vieira, 2003; Schiffrin, 1987; Gryner, 2000) de expressão de pontos de vista e de sustentação, por meio das quais a revista se posiciona e posiciona as organizações e os empresários (Harré; Langenhove, 1991; 1999) no mundo dos negócios. A partir da análise destas estratégias, foram verificadas as principais storylines de sucesso defendidas pela publicação, como princípios para as empresas crescerem com lucro. Os resultados apontam para o uso de estratégias de sustentação de argumentos com base em fatos; exemplos de outras empresas; dados estatísticos obtidos através de pesquisas e de discurso reportado (Tannen, 1989) de estórias de vida de empresários e especialistas, o que confere ao discurso jornalístico aparência de representar objetivamente a realidade (Shi-Xu, 2000). No entanto, estas estratégias lingüístico-discursivas expressam pontos de vista e aproximam o gênero reportagem do press release, isto é, de um texto que informa e promove as organizações, seus gestores e servem como cartilhas que orientam o comportamento profissional no mundo capitalista (Gee et. al., 1996).
This study proposes a discussion about the neutralistic posture (Heritage; Greatbatch, 1991) assumed on cover reports of Revista Exame published in 2005, Abril Publisher. The reports are analyzed based on the argumentative strategies (Vieira, 2003; Schiffrin, 1987; Gryner, 2000) of marks of points of view and sustaining, through which the magazine assumes a position while positions organizations and entrepreneurs (Harré; Langenhove, 1991, 1999) in the business world. The analysis of these strategies unveiled the main storylines of success spread by the magazine as principles for companies to grow profitably. The results show the use of strategies to sustain arguments based on facts; examples of other companies; statistical data from surveys and reported speech (Tannen, 1989) of life stories told by entrepreneurs and experts, making believe that journalistic discourse represents objectively the reality (Shi-Xu, 2000). However, these linguistic and discursive strategies express points of view and provide approximation between reports and press release, that is, a text that informs and promotes organizations and their managers and can be used as manuals to guide professional behavior in the capitalist world (Gee et. al., 1996).
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Gupta, Rakesh. "Problems in communication network design and location planning : new solution procedures." The Ohio State University, 1996. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1272990562.
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Speedy, Karin Elizabeth. "Cross-cultural communication in a postmodern business environment: the role of French language and culture in New Zealand-French business relations." Thesis, University of Auckland, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/409.
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In international business, notions of homogeneity and standardisation are promoted as necessary parts of the globalisation process. “One world” is equated with “one language” and English, portrayed as the global lingua franca, is seen as the only language needed to operate successfully in world markets. Using Jean Baudrillard’s theory of the cyclic superposition of the singular, universal and global as a framework and applying it to the business communications between New Zealand exporters and their French buyers, this thesis questions the beliefs underpinning Anglophone reliance on English, and the value of this reliance, in a postmodern business environment. It first examines historical shifts in attitudes to and use of both dominant “universal” languages and individual “singular” languages and finds that tensions tend to arise when dominant powers try to impose, in an imperialistic fashion, their language on the “Other”. It argues that the universal ideals of unity and openness popularly associated with globalisation are myths expounded by Anglophone big business, which, as the advocate of English as the language of international commerce, fails to recognise the hegemonic implications of its discourse. Through both qualitative and quantitative field research, it reaches the conclusion that, aside from a lack of attention paid to foreign languages in business, international business writers offer outdated and often erroneous cross-cultural advice for doing business in France. This cultural guidance is tainted by both the universalist/structuralist frameworks employed by the writers as well as their own inherent cultural assumptions, and is found to be of little use to New Zealand business people. By reviewing previous research, the thesis determines that New Zealand business has demonstrated a slight shift in attitude toward foreign language use in recent years. The results of my survey, designed to gauge the present attitudes to and use of French among New Zealand exporters, show that while some firms have embraced the idea of using French in business, most are still reliant on English for day-to-day business communications with their French customers. In the view of the latter, however, this behaviour does not foster efficient and equitable business relations. For the French, a New Zealand exporter prepared to use French in the French market would have a competitive advantage. Set in the context of Baudrillard’s paradigm, the thesis demonstrates that within the New Zealand-French business relationship the perpetual struggle between local and dominant languages continues to be a critical issue that requires urgent redress.
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Rangaraju, Sandeep Kumar. "THE MACROECONOMIC EFFECTS OF TAX NEWS." UKnowledge, 2015. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/economics_etds/17.
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This dissertation explores the effect of tax news on national and state-level economic activity.
In the first chapter, I explore the effect of tax news on state economic activity. I estimate a factor-augmented vector autoregression (FAVAR) model, which allows us to consider the possibility that unobserved regional factors --such as credit and fiscal conditions-- might be relevant for modelling the dynamic response of aggregate and state-level economic activity. Tax news is identified as a shock to the implicit tax rate, measured by the yield spread between the one year tax-exempt municipal bond and the one-year taxable Treasury bond. My results suggest that an increase in the implicit tax rate raises national output over much of the anticipation period. In addition, anticipated tax increases give rise to expansions in state personal income and employment. I find that the variation in the responsiveness of economic activity across states is mostly explained by differences in industrial composition as well as by some demographic characteristics such as education attainment and median age.
In the second chapter, I examine the impact and transmission of the effect of tax news on U.S. economic activity. I find that news related to higher federal income taxes raise the real GDP over the anticipation period. In addition, aggregate and disaggregate industrial production, employment per worker, hours worked per worker and capacity utilization rate respond positively to tax news in the short run. An historical decomposition shows that tax news and federal funds rate shocks have been the main source of fluctuations in real GDP. In particular, tax news associated with legislation in 1986, 1993, and 2001 contributed to the movements in the real GDP.
In the third chapter, I investigate whether the effect of tax news shocks differs across periods of recession and expansion. I follow Jorda’s (2005) local projection method to estimate tax news effects on the economy. I find that news about future tax cuts reduces economic activity for about four quarters and has a significant effect on the U.S. economy in the short run. The behavior of output following tax news shocks is similar in both recession and expansion phases of the business cycle and indicates that news about future tax cuts are contractionary. However, the rebound in economic activity four quarters after the news shock is higher in the recessionary phase than in the expansionary phase. Finally, the state dependent model shows that news shocks have a stronger positive impact on consumption expenditures and residential investment in the recession phase than in the expansion phase.
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Olsson, Johan. "Does All News Mean Good News? : A study in the complexity of how exposure in newspapers affect opinion numbers." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Handelshögskolan vid Umeå universitet, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-39248.
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There have been a lot of researches done on political parties and their characteristics in the modern world concerning marketing and communication. This thesis seeks to tap into a new area within this subject by asking a main research question: How could political parties use exposure in newspapers as a marketing tool to raise opinion numbers? The theories that has been applied to the thesis consists of findings within several areas; political science, philosophy and psychology. However, emphasize has been to apply it to the area of business administration by connecting it to consumer/voting behavior to explain how through the complexity of exposure and choice forms a voter into voting. The thesis consist of data concerning opinion numbers spanning over ten years, January 2000 – December 2009, as well as the total number of articles that has been published in four of Sweden’s largest newspapers. Both data sources are to be considered reliable, which is important since the entire thesis consists of secondary data.
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Silberstein-Loeb, Jonathan. "Business, politics, technology, and the international supply of news, 1850-1945." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.611227.
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Burgard, Andrew. "Can Business News Provide Insight into a Stock’s Future Price Performance?" Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1673.
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Mutual funds and money managers have recently come under fire for their inability to beat market level returns since the Great Recession. With the recent trend towards passive money management through ETFs and other market-based securities, many investors have come to doubt whether above market returns are realizable in today’s economic climate. This paper examines whether business news has any predictable impact on stock price. Specifically, the paper explores the impact of analyst reports, mergers & acquisition news, legal affairs, insider buying and selling and changes to executive leadership on a stock’s excess returns. The results show that optimistic analyst ratings are correlated with positive excess returns before, during, and after the ratings are released. Furthermore, pessimistic analyst ratings are correlated with negative excess returns over the same time frame. These results provide support for a short term trading strategy that mirrors analyst opinions.
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Nah, Seungho. "Essays on Market Frictions, Economic Shocks and Business Fluctuations." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1283852949.
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Bakeer, Ali. "A new model for e-business deployment in Libyan public universities." Thesis, University of Gloucestershire, 2017. http://eprints.glos.ac.uk/4562/.
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Electronic Business (e-Business) is recognised as being able to help organisations to achieve competitiveness benefits. In Libya, the uptake of e-business in the higher education sector has been relatively limited and ineffective. There is no guidance available to help Libyan universities to maximise their leverage by participating intelligently in e-business deployment. This research examines e-business deployment initiatives and provides insights and learning into how to successfully develop and implement these initiatives within universities in a developing country, specifically Libya. The aim of this research is to develop a robust framework to support an efficient e-business deployment focusing on the case of Libya. This is achieved by exploring selected completed and on-going successful initiatives and focusing on the barriers to, and the enablers of, these initiatives. As a result, the nature of successful e-business deployment is determined, and the e-business deployment requirements for universities in Libya are identified. A combination of research methodology approaches has been engaged in this research. Firstly, an extensive review of literature took place to summarise and create the arguments around the main e-business models and their related dimensions, contributing to the development of e-business deployment research. Secondly, a qualitative approach based on case studies, include an explanatory investigation in three cases, is selected as an appropriate methodology for this research. Questionnaires and semi-structured interviews are conducted to gather data from selected universities. The results show that Process, People and Technology barriers are the main barriers facing e-business deployment in Libyan universities. The collected data was analysed and problems were identified; as a result, the elements for a holistic approach to manage e-business deployment emerged. Based on the findings, an e-business deployment model is developed to provide a holistic approach for universities to plan, perform and review their e-business levels, as well as uncovering the main barriers preventing these universities from expanding e-business development. Also, a model of the implementation process of e-business deployment is proposed. From a practical point of view, this research provides realistic implications for decision makers and officials within Libyan universities involved in the process of planning, developing and implementing e-business initiatives.
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Klaussner, Miriam. "An examination of communication across cultures in news media and at informal/personal levels : with concentration on relations among two South East Asian countries and Australia and those two countries and Germany." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2002.
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In the age of globalisation dominated by mass communication, the flow of information contributes to a big extent to the worldviews of its "global citizens".
From this point of view the mass media can be seen as one of the most salient sources of cross-cultural communication. This study investigates mass
communication across cultures, focusing on South East Asia (Malaysia and Singapore), Australia and Germany. The centre of attention is the Western media coverage of South East Asia and vice versa. In this context a content analysis of
newspapers of the three regions has been conducted. In addition, working practices and conditions of Western foreign correspondents in South East Asia have been
examined. Apart from the investigation of inter-cultural media coverage, another focus of attention will be the examination of two levels of communication: The business
level, concentrating on issues like e.g. the Asian business etiquette; and the private level, looking into the transition to a different culture from the perspective of Australian and German expatriates. Apart from investigating mass communication across cultures and to provide a written analysis of the findings, a series of radio documentaries in English and in German has been produced. They cover the following issues: Foreign correspondents in South East Asia, the expatriate-lifestyle of Australians and Germans in South East Asia, business etiquette in Asia, student exchange Germany-Asia, image and prejudices East-West and Tourism.
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Köhne, Frank. "Electronic negotiation support systems and their role in business communication : an exploratory evaluation of auction use$nElektronische Ressource /." [S.l. : s.n.], 2007. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:100-opus-2304.
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Coelho, Luis. "Market reaction to bad news : the case of bankruptcy filings." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/3239.
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Finance scholars disagree on how real world financial markets work. On the one hand, efficient market hypothesis (EMH) advocates claim that arbitrage ensures that market prices do not systematically deviate from their fundamental value even when some market participants are less than fully rational. Hence, in the EMH world, securities’ prices always reflect all available information. On the other hand, behavioural finance theorists argue that investors suffer important cognitive biases and that arbitrage is both risky and costly. In this alternative setting, prices may not reflect all available information and can systematically deviate from their fundamental value for long periods of time. My thesis contributes to this ongoing debate by exploring how the US equity market reacts to bankruptcy announcements. Using a set of 351 non-financial, non-utility firms filing for Chapter 11 between 1979 and 2005 that remain listed on a main exchange, I first find a strong, negative and statistically significant mean post-bankruptcy announcement drift. This ranges from -24 to -44 percent over the following 12 months depending on the benchmark adopted to measure abnormal returns. A number of robustness tests confirm that this result is not a mere statistical artefact. In fact, the post-bankruptcy drift is not subsumed by known confounding factors like the post-earnings announcement drift, the post-first-time going concern drift, the momentum effect, the book-to-market effect, industry clustering or the level of financial distress. In addition, I show that my main result is robust to different methods for conducting longer-term event studies. My empirical findings are consistent with the previous behavioural finance literature that claims that the market is unable to deal appropriately with acute bad news events. In the second part of this thesis, I investigate how limits to arbitrage impact the stock price of firms undergoing a Chapter 11 reorganization. I find that, despite the apparent large negative abnormal returns, the post-bankruptcy announcement drift offers only an illusory profit opportunity. Moreover, I show that noise trader risk is critical for the pricing of these firms’ stock. Taken together, my results suggest that limits to arbitrage issues can explain the persistence of the market-pricing anomaly I uncover. As such, the market for firms in Chapter 11 appears to be “minimally rational” (Rubinstein, 2001). My work additionally explores whether behavioural finance theory can help clarify why the post-bankruptcy announcement drift occurs in the first place. I find that the Barberis, Shleifer and Vishny (1998) and the Hong and Stein (1999) models do not account well for the typical return pattern associated with the announcement of Chapter 11. My results call into question the reliability of existing theoretical models based on behavioural concepts in explaining how real world financial markets really work. In the last part of this thesis, I show that the different motivations for filing for Chapter 11 Court protection affect the market’s reaction to this extreme event. Solvent firms addressing the Bankruptcy Court not as a last resort but as a planned business strategy characterize a strategic bankruptcy; companies on the verge of imminent failure typify a non-strategic bankruptcy. I find that for non-strategic bankruptcies, there is a negative and statistically significant post-event drift lasting at least twelve months. Conversely, I show that, although the initial market reaction to bankruptcy filing is similar in the case of strategic bankruptcies in terms of viewing all bankruptcies as homogeneous, there is a subsequent reversal in the stock return pattern for these peculiar firms. In effect, abnormal returns become strongly positive and significant suggesting that, over time, the market to recognise strategic bankruptcies as good news events. Overall, the results of my PhD allow me to make some important contributions to finance theory and the finance literature, in particular in the bad news disclosure and market pricing domains.
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Saleh, Leo, and Angelica Storck. "Marketing Communication in the New Digital World : Take the leap!" Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, EMM (Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Management), 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-884.
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Background:
During the last years, the boom of the Internet has carried along with it new possibilities for communication, in addition, other technological developments of society together act to form a new reality in which companies have to rethink their means for com-municating with consumers.
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In a new reality where consumers seem to reap all the benefits of the technological changes, how then, should companies adjust to the changing environment? The authors first investigated the modern media environment and found some trends in how it is evolving, and after listening to what some experts within the field think about the future and of what should be done, they them-selves endeavoured to generate some guidance for companies in this matter.
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This thesis is somewhat of a Delphi study, which means that it heavily relies on the statements of experts. What they have said has played a crucial role in the authors’ own formulation of guid-ance. The experts were interviewed either face-to-face, or through the exchange of e-mails.
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Major trends in how the media environment is transforming are; technology as an enhancer to rather becoming a determinant, segmentation to fragmentation, decreasing- to increasing returns to scale, an opening for entirely new business concepts and an in-creasing value of intangible assets as a complement to traditional, tangible assets. The authors then presented some elements that would be of crucial significance in this new environment, and they also formulated some more specific guidance in how these ele-ments could be instigated in companies. They were; Speed and flexibility, customization and sustainability. Advice in how they could be instigated where then summarized and illustrated in the “New Digital World Market Communication Diamond”, which basically emphasizes the need for updating the values and the cor-porate culture, the need for streamlining supply chains, the need of truly finding and using information about consumers, and fi-nally, the need for adaptive experimentation.
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Karlsson, Oscar. "Att erbjuda nyheter på surfplattor i framtiden : En marknadsanalys av nyhetstidningars digitala närvaro i surfplattor." Thesis, KTH, Medieteknik och interaktionsdesign, MID, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-158503.
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Denna studie av den digitala marknaden för svensk dagspress är ett examensarbete utfört åt kvällstidningen Expressen. Undersökningen syftar till att utreda den strukturella marknadssituationen för svensk dagspress och dess förutsättningar rörande framtida närvaro i surfplattan. Via intervjuer med branschexperter söks tolkningar om läsartrender och behov i surfplattan, paketeringsstrategi och behovet av personifierade nyhetsflöden. Undersökningen och dess tolkningar understöds av en inledande litteraturstudie vilken behandlar den svenska dagstidningsmarknaden, dess digitala transformation och tekniska förutsättningar gällande surfplattan och rapporterade konsumenttrender. Studien visar bl.a. att den svenska dagstidningsmarknaden är utsatt för en hög intern konkurrens vilket ställer höga omställningskrav på bolagen i en digital era. Den läsartrafik som besöker nyhetstidningarna via surfplattan är mycket sannolik att fortsätta öka liksom behovet av mer tidsfördrivande och sammanfattade nyheter. Studien visar vidare att tidningarna bör anamma en plattformsneutral paketeringsstrategi med grafisk anpassning till surfplattan. Det ökade utbudet av nyhetsinnehåll på nätet ökar även vikten av att kunna erbjuda personifierade nyheter och rekommenderat innehåll. Inför framtiden kommer det bli viktigt att erbjuda en bra nyhetsupplevelse i surfplattan även om de digitala finansieringsutmaningarna i stort blir av större vikt för tidningarna att finna lösningen på.This study of the digital market for Swedish newspapers is a master thesis carried out for the evening newspaper Expressen. The purpose of the study is to investigate the internal market structure of the Swedish daily press and its qualifications regarding offering tablet news in the future. Through interviews with industry experts an attempt is made at collecting interpretations about reading trends and user needs in the tablet, packaging strategies and the need of personalized news. The investigation and its assessment is supported by an initial literature study which examines the Swedish market for daily newspapers, its digital transformation and technical pre-conditions regarding the tablet and reported consumer trends. The study shows among other things that the Swedish market for daily news is exposed to a high degree of internal competition which sets high requirements on the firms concerning changeover abilities in a digital era. The amount of user traffic that reads news on tablets is very likely to keep on increasing as is the need of shorter news. The study shows further that the newspapers should adapt a platform neutral packaging strategy with graphical adjustments to the tablet. The increased offering of online news also increase the need for personalized news and recommended content. It will be important to offer a good news experience on the tablet in the future despite the fact that the digital financing issues in general are of greater importance for the newspapers to solve.
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Mehkari, Mohammad Saif. "Essays on Exogenous TFP Shocks and Business Cycles." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1308771113.
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Pfeifer, Johannes [Verfasser]. "Fiscal News, Uncertainty, and the Business Cycle / Johannes Pfeifer. Rechts- und Staatswissenschaftliche Fakultät." Bonn : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn, 2012. http://d-nb.info/1019567325/34.
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Cascaldi-Garcia, Danilo. "An empirical evaluation of news and uncertainty shocks as sources of business cycles." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2018. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/110555/.
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This Thesis contributes to the literature of business cycles driven by agents' beliefs. In Chapter 3, we provide novel empirical evidence linking the effects of technology news shocks to uncertainty shocks. Their correlation implies that when financial uncertainty shocks hit the economy, utilization-adjusted total factor productivity (TFP) increases over the medium-term. This leads to an attenuation of the effects on economic activity from news shocks in the short-term and from uncertainty shocks in the medium- term. Supported by these results, we propose an identification strategy to measure the effects of `good uncertainty' shocks and disentangle the importance of technological news, good and bad uncertainties, and ambiguity shocks in explaining business cycle variation. In Chapter 4, I investigate the empirical relationship between agents' responses to future technological changes and the level of uncertainty in the economy. I show that the economic responses to news shocks change substantially over time, and that this dynamic couples with periods of high and low uncertainty. Periods of high uncertainty are characterized by higher positive economic effects of news shocks on output, consumption, investment and real personal income. These results indicate that the continuous updating of agents' expectations about the current and future economic situation operates as a transmission channel for news shocks, amplifying its positive outcomes. Kurmann and Otrok [2013] show that the effects on economic activity from news on future productivity growth are similar to the effects from unexpected changes in the slope of the yield curve. In Chapter 5, I show that these results do not hold in the light of a recent update in the utilization-adjusted TFP series produced by Fernald [2014]. In Chapter 6, I propose a novel method of identifying technological news shocks through instrumental variables based on forecast revisions from the Survey of Professional Forecasters. I construct proxy measures for the slope of the long-run trend of GDP, investment and industrial production, which are strong instruments for recovering the underlying news shock. The procedure has the advantage of relying on information about agents' expectations, instead of the statistical procedures currently used for the news shock identification. By employing a proxy SVAR, I show that news shocks produce substantial effects on impact on GDP and investment. The effects on consumption in the short-run, however, are milder than usually presented by the news shock literature.
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FARIAS, Lucicleyton Henrique de. "Commodity prices and business cycle in emerging economies: the role of news shocks." Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, 2017. https://repositorio.ufpe.br/handle/123456789/25951.
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It is commonly accepted in macroeconomic literature that fluctuation in commodity prices are a key source of business cycles in emerging economies. In this present work, we explore the hypothesis that some movements in commodity prices are anticipated and can trigger fluctuation in the economy in the context of a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model. The model is a multi-sector version of a small open economy model featuring three real rigidities: internal habit formation, capital adjustment cost and working capital constraint. Moreover, the model presents two exogenous processes, one for the country-specific interest rate that can respond to commodity price level, and one for commodity prices that are composed by an unanticipated and an anticipated component. We first perform a formulation for anticipated shocks that exploits the fact that agents receive news about future fundamentals as small shocks. Then, we explore a formulation where news shocks could only trigger business cycles through changes in agents' expectation, which is called “Pigou cycles" in the macroeconomic literature . We show that the model presented in this work can generate reasonable dynamics regarding unexpected shocks in fundamentals. Moreover, the model suggest that news shocks can be a significant source of business cycles in emerging economies, helping to explain around 32% of fluctuation in output and hours worked, but only with the implicit assumption that news about future changes in commodity price can affect current level in this exogenous process.
É comumente aceito na literatura macroeconômica que flutuações nos preços das commodities é uma importante fonte de ciclos econômicos nas economias emergentes. Neste presente trabalho, nós exploramos a hipótese de que alguns movimentos nos preços das commodities são antecipados e podem provocar flutuações na economia no contexto de um modelo estocástico de equilíbrio geral dinâmico. O modelo é uma versão multi-setor do modelo de pequenas economias aberta com três rigidezes reais: formação de hábitos interno, custo de ajuste de capital e restrição de capital de giro. Além disso, o modelo apresenta dois processos exógenos, um para a taxa de juros que o país enfrenta nos mercados internacionais de crédito, que pode responder ao nível de preços das commodities, e um processo para o preços de commodity que é composto por um componente não-antecipado e um componente antecipado. Primeiramente, nós realizamos uma formulação para choques antecipados que explora o fato de que os agentes recebem notícias sobre mudanças futuras nos processos estocásticos como pequenos choques. Depois disso, nós exploramos uma formulação em que os choques de notícias só poderiam desencadear flutuações econômicas através de mudanças na expectativa dos agentes, o que é conhecido como “ciclos de Pigou" na literatura macroeconômica. Nós mostramos que o modelo apresentado neste trabalho pode gerar dinâmicas razoáveis em relação a choques inesperados nos processos estocásticos. Além disso, o modelo sugere que os choques de notícia podem ser uma fonte significativa de ciclos econômicos nas economias emergentes, ajudando a explicar cerca de 32% da flutuação no PIB e em horas-trabalhadas, mas apenas com implícita suposição de que as notícias sobre mudanças futuras no preço das commodities podem afetar o nível atual desses preços.
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Guyader, Hugo, and Mario Kienzler. "Knowledge integration under uncertainty : A sensemaking perspective on experts' verbal communication." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-97414.
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AbstractTitle Knowledge integration under uncertainty:A sensemaking perspective on experts’ verbal communicationAuthors Hugo Guyader and Mario KienzlerSupervisors Marie Bengtsson and Christian BerggrenBackground Uncertain situations are characterized by a lack of comprehension,due to a lack of knowledge. It is not possible to know beforehand,what the consequences of an action will be. However, teamsof experts within NPD projects are required to act despite thisuncertainty. Even though they should be paralyzed, the teammembers integrate their individual knowledge and manage to developtechnologically-innovative products or services which answer thecustomers' requirements.Purpose The study analyzes the verbal communication of experts during theknowledge integration process from a sensemaking perspective.The experts are engineers from a NPD project dealing with thedevelopment of a new steam turbine.Definitions Knowledge integration: collective social process which isrequired to integrate distinct but complementary knowledge residingin various individuals, which’s output is integrated knowledge—e.g.embedded in an artifact.Sensemaking: ongoing process of giving meaning to actions,beliefs and events in order to understand their implication in acontext.Experts: trained specialists with experience in one or a few specificfields.Results The experts’ verbal communication is characterized by punctuatedexpecting and frequent arguing. Thereby, arguing is characterizedby questioning, rewording and summarizing. Arguing is seen as themain communicational facilitator during the knowledge integrationprocess.Key words Knowledge integration, uncertainty, sensemaking,verbal communication, new product development.
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Abdubaliev, Ulukbek, and Aizhan Akysheva. "Storytelling Practices in Project Management : Exploratory study in new business process implementation in Information and Communication Technology projects." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-144298.
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Stories have always been present in the life of people as a part of their culture, it is a rather ancient narrative technique. The message delivered in a form of a story is specifically appealing to listeners, which makes it a powerful communication tool. The thesis explores storytelling practices in project management by answering the question: “How project managers use storytelling in new business process implementation in ICT projects?” The choice of the topic was driven by the gap in the literature and the choice of context was chosen by the level of maturity of project management in ICT industry. Within the framework of interpretivist research paradigm, the data was collected by interviewing ten project managers of new business process implementation in ICT projects. The thesis findings suggest that storytelling in implementation of new business processes in ICT projects is used in formal and informal forums in written and verbal format. Project managers use storytelling to pursue several goals: making sense of ICT projects, human resource management, promoting adaptation to new business processes, knowledge management and attracting new customers and investments into ICT projects. Storytelling in ICT projects is also limited by storytelling conditions, such as organizational culture, extent of change, governance structure. Storytelling in projects is subject to challenges, such as logistics and timeliness of practices. From the practical point of view, the thesis explores storytelling as an effective communication tool that can be used for multiple goals in project management. It allows adding storytelling to the requirement list of new soft competences of project managers. The thesis has bridged a literature gap between storytelling and project management, which opens new theoretical perspective of interpreting the reality in projects and creates space for further research.
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Kärcher, Karsten. "Reinventing the package holiday business : new information and communication technologies in the British and German tour operator sectors." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 1996. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=25330.
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Tour operators and travel agents are threatened with disintermediation in the travel and tourism industry, especially as a consequence of altered customer demand and new information and communication technologies which foster direct bookings. In this thesis, however, it is argued that major European tour operators are reinventing their business activities to adapt to these changes and to secure their strategic position in the package holiday business. These tour operators are in particular developing and implementing new information and communication technology strategies to support both their production and distribution of holiday packages and, moreover, to enable them to automatically assemble and market individually tailored holidays. Data to support this argument was gained from an extensive empirical survey in Britain and Germany. A total of 44 tour operators were interviewed in Britain and Germany, which controlled over 65% of their respective national market shares. The interviewed tour operators also included ten of the top twelve European tour operator groups. Leading tour operator associations and charter airlines were interviewed in addition. This research provides a detailed insight into the tour operator sector, particularly in Britain and Germany, thus contributing to research in the travel and tourism industry. Moreover, a theoretical framework is developed and proposed, largely based on industrial organisation and new institutional economics literature. The application of this framework in this thesis for the study of the package holiday business contributes to travel and tourism research, and provides a useful methodology for the study of a sector or industry.
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Lazauskas, Darius, Julia Jacka, and Ingrida Kažemėkaitė. "Rage, giggles and fishing for clicks : A qualitative study on how clickbaiting affects perceived online news content quality." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för marknadsföring (MF), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-75384.
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Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore how the use of clickbait marketing strategies by online news outlets affects consumer perceptions of online news content quality. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative, deductive, exploratory and cross-sectional method, wherein data was collected through semi-structured interviews to understand consumer perceptions of how the use of clickbait strategies affects perceived online news content quality. The gathered data was then analyzed with the help of a directed content analysis supported by qualitative content analysis software Atlas.Ti. Findings This study found that the use of clickbait content strategies affected the perceived quality of online news content. Furthermore, it was found that there are two primary consumer groups, one of which seeks to avoid clickbait and one of which seems to engage with clickbait. Finally, several new variables were found for perceived news content quality that applied in the online space. Research limitations/implications The main implications of this research are that clickbait strategies should be utilized cautiously as they are often found misleading or displeasing, and may cause damage to the publisher. Furthermore, despite clickbait sometimes being entertaining, most clickbait was found to be highly context sensitive. Finally, a number of new variables were found that expanded previous understandings of perceived news quality. This study was limited by several factors - firstly, a lack of english as a first language which may have resulted in misunderstandings. Secondly, the articles utilized were found to have several shortcomings during the research procedure. Finally, due to the qualitative nature of this study, its findings are non-generalizable.
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Hussain, Wajahat. "Transparency in Sustainability Communication : Developing and Testing a new Model to assess Consumer-Facing Sustainability Transparency Communication of Fashion Brand/Retailer’s Website." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Akademin för textil, teknik och ekonomi, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-12834.
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Background. Consumer facing Transparency is a function of communication that has become essential for the fashion business ecosystem and to have the reputations of legitimacy and credibility. As a contemporary subject, it is surrounded with ambiguity and heterogeneity in definitions, different Fashion brands/fashion brands/retailers/Fashion brands/retailers try to have their own definition and approach towards transparency. The communication strategy and disclosure of information therefore varies within these companies. With the increase in ecommerce, corporate Websites are currently the largest medium of sustainability communication. Fashion brands/fashion brands/retailers/Fashion brands/retailers use a combination of visual communication, data, text, reports and design to communicate the sustainability of their supply chain. There is however, a need to be able to measure the level of transparency of such communication against a standardized model. A model that Fashionbrands/fashion brands/retailers/Fashion brands/retailers can adopt to assess the transparency in their communication. Theory. Consumer facing transparency is an interdisciplinary subject where media, social accountability, information accessibility and quality, openness and effective design interplay to create what can be called “Perceived Transparency”. Purpose. The purpose of this study is to build and test a model tool to assess transparency in website based communication. Research Question. What informational, communication design and behavioral attributes constitute the perceived transparency, create legitimacy and credibility? Method. The study is divided into two parts. Part I: Conceptual literature review for Model Development Part II: Testing the model on a real-life Fashion Brand/Retailer website using Applied Discourse Analysis Contribution: - The model provides a multifocal approach to assess web design and communication strategy to improve transparency in sustainability communication by focusing on factors such Coherence, comprehensibility, navigability, attestation, engagement and correspondence Limitations: - The model is still a prototype and therefore there is room for improvement. It needs to be tested further on a larger scale involving multiple cases. Although the applied discourse analysis method focuses on empirical evidence, the analysis can be objective depending upon the user.
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Cullen, Suzanne. "Language utilisation in an international business organisation a New Zealand case study : thesis submitted to Auckland University of Technology in partial fulfilment of the degree of Master of Arts (Applied Language Studies), 2005." Full thesis. Abstract, 2005.
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Tawe, Ngamale Emmanuel. "The making of business news in Africa: a case study of Cameroon Tribune newspaper." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002942.
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Since the emergence of business journalism as a genre within the broad spectrum of news reporting, most of the scholarly works into its development have focused on growth in the western (that is developed) world. This indicates that very limited research has been done in the field of business journalism in the developing economies. Thus there exist gaps in understanding the practice of business journalism in Africa and part of this is rooted in how the practice is defined. This study aims to shed light on the practice of business journalism in this African context. It explores the onset and development of business journalism and its evolution in Africa. The main focus in this case study was to understand the definition of business news in the specific context of the Cameroon Tribune. Individual in-depth interviews were used as the main (primary) data collection method along with observation and cursory reading as complementary (secondary) methods. This study is influenced by the sociology of news production which foregrounds theoretical frames such as news construction and gatekeeping. Findings from this study reveal that business news at the Cameroon Tribune is elitist, essentially defined around personality and, is in the most part, development news. Additional findings indicate that the absence of any editorial guidelines leaves most reporters secondguessing how to please management with socialised values mostly acquired through peer learning. In conclusion, this study advances the necessity for the Africanisation of business news. This would entail reporting financial, economic, consumer, and corporate affairs, from a vocabulary and composition context that unveils much exchange taking place in the lives of many Africans.
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Hagenfeldt, Erik. "Working from Home - the new Office : Communication and Leadership for a Stay-at-home Workforce." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-179867.
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The objective of this paper is to discover what if any changes have occurred to communication and leadership due to COVID-19. The recent pandemic caused home-office to become the new standard for desk job workers but what if the home-office environment impacted communication and leadership. Seven middle managers of two large MNC’s based in Germany were interviewed to gain an understanding of the issue at hand. This paper focuses specifically on home-office caused by COVID-19 as all respondents of the study were employees formerly working in an office environment. To understand the implications of communication and leadership at the workplace relevant scientific literature was reviewed. The findings of the interviews were then compared with findings from said literature to develop new insights about communication and leadership at the home-office. Several changes to communication and leadership were identified from the data collected. Based on the perspectives of middle managers the identified changes appear to have had a negative affect on both communication and leadership. The cause of these negative effects is explained, and speculations are drawn as to how these effects will impact organizations in the long run.
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Maion, Thales Augusto Jordão de Toledo Torricelli. "News shocks e expectativas do consumidor: evidências para o Brasil." Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/12/12138/tde-04042018-163958/.
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Índices de confiança/expectativas são frequentemente utilizados pela mídia e pelo mercado com intuito de projetar o comportamento da economia. As expectativas dos agentes econômicos são peças relevantes, acredita-se, para explicar flutuações de produto e emprego, tanto moderadas como drásticas a exemplo das crises \".com\" e dos subprimes americanos. No Brasil, o tema passou a receber mais atenção devido à crise dos últimos anos.A estimação de um VAR com séries brasileiras de produto, consumo e expectativas sugere que de fato inovações nos índices de expectativas possuirão impactos de médio-longo prazo no consumo agregado e no PIB, além dos próprios índices. A partir dessa evidência, procura-se separar por meio de um modelo DSGE o quanto desses impactos se deve a fundamentos econômicos futuros antecipados pelos agentes e o quanto se deve a alterações momentâneas de humor, isto é, aos animal spirits. Os resultados sugerem que animal spirits e ruídos inerentes aos próprios índices são responsáveis por uma parte considerável da flutuação no período de 1-2 trimestres. Para horizontes iguais ou superiores a 2 trimestres, a antecipação de fundamentos econômicos passa a ser predominante.Consumer confidence/expectation indexes are frequently used by the media and the market in order to forecast the behavior of the economy. Agents\' expectations are believed to explain output and employment fluctuations, either moderate or drastic as the \".com\" and the american subprime crisis. In Brazil, more attention has been drawn to this topic due to the recent economic crisis.The estimation of a VAR with brazilian data for consumption, output and expectations suggests that innovations to the expectation indexes do have impact on aggregate consumption and GDP in the medium/long-run, as well as the indexes themselves. Inspired by this evidence, a DSGE model is used in order to assess how much of these impacts are due to anticipation of future economic fundamentals and how much are due to animal spirits. The results indicate that animal spirits and index-specific noise are responsible for a non-negligible amount of fluctuations up to 2 quarters, whereas news of future economic conditions prevail on lower frequencies.