complex interplay of scenography, lighting, clothing, managers' performance style, rhetoric, and audience interaction, showing …

This research explores the use of control rhetoric in CEO letters between the pre and post Sarbanes Oxley periods and … amount of control rhetoric included in CEO letters contained in the annual report in pre- and post-SOX periods and conduct an … experiment to determine if the amount of control rhetoric would influence financial statement users' perception of internal …

Although China tends to be an important topic in election campaigns, the consequences of this rhetoric have not been … systematically examined. We highlight the process by which China uses campaign rhetoric to make inferences about the intentions of … assessments. In turn, three patterns define Chinese policy toward new administrations: proactive engagement when campaign rhetoric …

, inconsistently with the notion that the trust rhetoric of women managers is more truthful than that of their male counterparts, trust …This study investigates the perceived and actual trustworthiness and truthfulness of female managers when using … rhetoric to advertise their trustworthiness in public disclosure documents. We find that the stock market reacts more favorably …