This dissertation deals with firms’ visual and pre-visual self-representations in accounting narratives. Self-representations are those descriptions about the company that firms include in accounting narratives to convey the current standings and their identity. External stakeholders increasingly expect non-numerical information about firms to be disclosed, and accounting narratives are a key m...

Speakers need to use a variety of referring expressions (REs) (e.g. full noun phrases, pronouns or null forms) in pragmatically appropriate ways to produce coherent narratives. Languages, however, differ from each other in terms of a) whether REs as arguments can be dropped or not and b) whether personal pronouns encode gender or not. Here we examine two languages that differ from each other in...

"Teen drama" television programs use sexual scripts that provide a framework for narrating virginity loss (Gagnon & Simon, 1973). Drawing on the work of Carpenter (2005), this study identifies the following sexual scripts in virginity-loss narratives: (a) the abstinence script, which places a high value on virginity and emphasizes delaying virginity loss; (b) the urgency script, which defines v...

Megaprojects along with creating value to the economy, create environmental, social and political disruptions in its local environment. Narratives guide action hence both promoters protesters of a project mobilize narratives advance their interest. In this process, counter-narratives are (re)created interaction often establishes dominant narrative. Using case High Speed Two (HS2) megaproject En...

Using online narratives to explore participant experiences in a residential environmental education program Nicole M. Ardoin, Maria DiGiano, Kathleen O'Connor & Nicole Holthuis a Graduate School of Education and Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA b Earth Innovation Institute, San Francisco, CA, USA c Graduate School of Education, Stanford University, Sta...

We analyze the narratives that accompany the numerical forecasts in the Bank of England’s Inflation Reports. We focus on whether the narratives contain useful information about the future course of key macro variables over and above the point predictions, in terms of whether the narratives can be used to enhance the accuracy of the numerical forecasts. We also consider whether the narratives ar...

Narratives can be defined informally as a “spatio-temporally bounded stream of elementary events”. To make this sort of definition more computationally useful we introduce, firstly, some pragmatic criteria for recognizing highly ambiguous entities like the “elementary events” and for linking these events together into complete narratives. We raise then the problem of how to concretely represent...

The aim of this article is to advance the concept of collaborative innovation by an interpretative approach to study the micro-level implementation process of innovation. The article explains the role of the translation of ideas, demonstrating how narratives play an important role for employees in making sense of innovative ideas in everyday practice. An empirical case is offered to demonstrate...

The emergence of the field of organizational buying behavior in the mid-1960’s with the publication of Industrial Buying and Creative Marketing (1967) set the stage for a new paradigm of thinking about how business was conducted in markets other than those serving ultimate consumers. Whether it is “industrial marketing” or “business-to-business marketing” (B-to-B), organizational buying behavio...