Narrative reporting and crises: British Petroleum and Shell, 1950–1958

The Frontstage and Backstage of Corporate Sustainability Reporting: Evidence from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Bill

“…Previously, the work of Neu et al (1998), illustrating how corporations use environmental disclosure in annual reports to manage public impression about their activities, is inspired by Goffman (1959). Jeacle (2008) Besides the work drawing on Goffman, there is a substantial body of research exploring corporate disclosures from various other impression management perspectives specifically in the oil and gas industry (e.g., Abdelrehim et al, 2015;Arena et al, 2015;Bell and Lundblad, 2011;Cho, 2009;Hooghiemstra, 2000;Du and Vieira, 2012;Matejek and Gössling, 2014;Michelon, 2012;Patten, 1992;van Halderen et al, 2016), in the water industry (e.g., Cooper and Slack, 2015;Ogden and Clarke, 2005) and in other settings (e.g., Bansal and Clelland, 2004;Boiral, 2016;Bozzolan et al, 2015;Elsbach and Sutton, 1992;Higgins and Walker, 2012;Michelon et al, 2015;Neu et al, 1998;Sandberg and Holmlund, 2015;Talbot and Boiral, 2015;Talbot and Boiral, forthcoming;Tata and Prasad, 2015;Windsheid et al, 2016). In general, this prior research has shown how organizations use different impression management tactics to maintain or enhance their image (e.g.…”

The annual general meeting for Australian football clubs: An accountability and entertainment event

“…AGMs were extensively documented by the local suburban media and the narratives reported financial and non-financial information to stakeholders. In previous accounting historical research, the narratives and texts of AGMs have been used to examine the social contribution made by corporations (Abdelrehim et al, 2015; Maltby, 2004), thus reinforcing the usefulness of AGMs and newspaper narratives for this study.…”

“…Trove began in 2008 and now has more than 21 million pages of digitised newspaper pages from over 1,000 newspapers. 3 While some studies exist (see Abdelrehim et al, 2015; Fowler and Cordery, 2015), there has been a general scarcity of accounting-related historical studies which have sourced newspapers and the use of an archive such as Trove for historical accounting research is rare.…”

“…The specific aim is to outline how the roles of the AGM were evidenced in individual clubs. These roles, as noted in prior literature, are that the AGM is a mechanism for transferring accountability, for transmitting formal and informal communications and for providing a theatrical event (Abdelrehim et al, 2015; Bamber and Abraham, 2020; Carrington and Johed, 2007; Catasu and Johed, 2007; Jeacle, 2008; Nyqvist, 2015). By focusing on sport, this article extends the domain of historical accounting and, more specifically, AGM research into an important entertainment aspect of everyday life in Australia.…”

“…Research into football clubs and AGMs has been non-existent, however. The previous historical studies which have used the AGM as an archive for accounting research have focused on large companies (Abdelrehim et al, 2015; Maltby, 2004) and their periodical reporting (Gordon and Bolton, 2015). Contemporary research has also largely concentrated on corporations (see Apostolides, 2010; Carrington and Johed, 2007; Catasu and Johed, 2007), limited liability, joint-stock companies (Nyqvist, 2015) and trusts (Hodges et al, 2004).…”