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Is the Optimism in CEO’s Letters to Shareholders Sincere? Impression Management Versus Communicative Action During the Economic Crisis
Patelli, Lorenzo; Pedrini, Matteo - In: Journal of Business Ethics 124 (2014) 1, pp. 19-34
In this study, we explore the sincerity of the rhetorical tone of 664 annual letters to shareholders (CEO letters). Prior studies adopt Impression Management theory to predict that firms obfuscate failures and emphasize successes to unfairly enhance their image and maintain organizational...
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Exploring Top Management Language for Signals of Possible Deception: The Words of Satyam’s Chair Ramalinga Raju
Craig, Russell; Mortensen, Tony; Iyer, Shefali - In: Journal of Business Ethics 113 (2013) 2, pp. 333-347
the characteristics of language use indicated by the DICTION 5.0 text analysis master variable, CERTAINTY. The text of …
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Is Tone at the Top Associated with Financial Reporting Aggressiveness?
Patelli, Lorenzo; Pedrini, Matteo - In: Journal of Business Ethics 126 (2015) 1, pp. 3-19
The discussion about the relationship between tone at the top and financial reporting practices has been primarily focused on the oversight role played by the board of directors and other structural elements of corporate governance. Another relevant determinant of tone at the top is the...
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ESSAYS ON NEWS AND ASSET PRICES
Sinha, Nitish Ranjan - 2010
The first essay examines news and the cross section of returns. Using a sentiment score provided by Thomson Reuters to measure the tone of news articles, this paper examines monthly portfolio returns constructed from information about past news articles. The sentiment score is obtained from the...
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How significant are users’ opinions in social media?
Khobzi, Hamid; Teimourpour, Babak - In: International Journal of Accounting and Information … 22 (2014), pp. 254-272
Purpose – The purpose of this study is to assign polarity score to each post from Facebook fan pages, and then examine whether the Comments submitted by users on a post from fan page have a significant relationship with the popularity of that post. Being aware of how to enhance the popularity...
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The new profile of the virtual tourist-traveller: communicative perspectives and technological challenges
Folgieri, Raffaella; Bait, Miriam - University of Rijeka, Faculty of Tourism and …
Purpose – The wealth of information delivered on the web and the opportunity to access it using different platforms has led to a new profile of consumer of tourist information: a virtual navigator, who represents a hybrid figure between the tourist and traveler. These new kinds of users access...
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Deriving the Pricing Power of Product Features by Mining Consumer Reviews
Archak, Nikolay; Ghose, Anindya; Ipeirotis, Panagiotis G. - In: Management Science 57 (2011) 8, pp. 1485-1509
reviews. To demonstrate this, we use text mining to incorporate review text in a consumer choice model by decomposing textual … demonstrates how textual data can be used to learn consumers' relative preferences for different product features and also how text …
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Stock chatter: Using stock sentiment to predict price direction
Rechenthin, Michael; Street, W. Nick; Srinivasan, Padmini - In: Algorithmic Finance 2 (2013) 3-4, pp. 169-196
This paper examines a popular stock message board and finds slight daily predictability using supervised learning algorithms when combining daily sentiment with historical price information. Additionally, with the profit potential in trading stocks, it is of no surprise that a number of popular...
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Using Web Crawler Technology for Geo-Events Analysis: A Case Study of the Huangyan Island Incident
Hu, Hao; Ge, Yuejing; Hou, Dongyang - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 4, pp. 1896-1912
Social networking and network socialization provide abundant text information and social relationships into our daily … the 1990s, the text analysis and data visualization of geo-events faced the bottleneck of traditional manual analysis … framework of Heritrix and the analysis of web-based text, word frequency, sentiment tendency, and dissemination path of the …
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Mixtures of biased sentiment analysers
Salter-Townshend, Michael; Murphy, Thomas - In: Advances in Data Analysis and Classification 8 (2014) 1, pp. 85-103
Modelling bias is an important consideration when dealing with inexpert annotations. We are concerned with training a classifier to perform sentiment analysis on news media articles, some of which have been manually annotated by volunteers. The classifier is trained on the words in the articles...
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