Purpose: This paper aims to investigate the informativeness of rhetorical impression management patterns of CEO letters and examines whether these rhetorical features affect financial analysts’ forecasting behaviour. Design/methodology/approach: The authors use textual analysis on a sample of...

Using composite style measures of the letter to shareholders, we elaborate dominant rhetorical profiles and qualify them from an impression management perspective. In addition, we examine how institutional differences affect rhetorical profiles by comparing intensity and contingencies of...

This paper investigates the informativeness of rhetorical impression management patterns of CEO letters. We identify three holistic style patterns (assertive acclaiming, cautious plausibility-based framing and logic-based rationalizing) and examine the relationship of each composite linguistic...

Purpose Using composite style measures of the letter to shareholders, the purpose of this paper is to elaborate dominant rhetorical profiles and qualify them from an impression management (IM) perspective. In addition, the paper examines how institutional differences affect rhetorical profiles...