Power relationships in gender-related disclosures: exploring language in selected Fortune 500 companies’ sustainability reports
This research investigates power relationships in the disclosure on women and gender related issues in corporate sustainability reports. For this purpose fifty two companies from the 2013 Fortune top 100 list were selected. Critical discourse analysis (CDA) was conducted on the basis of Fairclough’...
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my.iium.irep.789672020-03-17T00:45:38Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/78967/ Power relationships in gender-related disclosures: exploring language in selected Fortune 500 companies’ sustainability reports Hossain, Dewan Mahboob Nik Ahmad, Nik Nazli Siraj, Siti Alawiah H61.8 Communication of information This research investigates power relationships in the disclosure on women and gender related issues in corporate sustainability reports. For this purpose fifty two companies from the 2013 Fortune top 100 list were selected. Critical discourse analysis (CDA) was conducted on the basis of Fairclough’s (1989) framework. Fairclough suggested analysing the language from three dimensions: text, process and social. Through CDA the notions of power and hegemony were identified and explained with the help of Bourdieu’s cultural capital as suggested by Everett (2004) and Aaken et al. (2012). The research concludes that discourses on women and gender carry the traditional patriarchal notions and reflect traditional ideas about women prevailing in most of the societies. Women were presented as a distressed species and companies tried to portray themselves as the saviours of women. The findings of this research contribute to the critical accounting literature by highlighting the strategic use of language in relation to gender issues by large global corporations. Inderscience Publisher 2017-12-01 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/78967/7/78967%20Power%20relationships%20in%20gender-related%20disclosures.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/78967/8/78967%20Power%20relationships%20in%20gender-related%20disclosures%20SCOPUS.pdf Hossain, Dewan Mahboob and Nik Ahmad, Nik Nazli and Siraj, Siti Alawiah (2017) Power relationships in gender-related disclosures: exploring language in selected Fortune 500 companies’ sustainability reports. International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics, 12 (3). pp. 262-288. ISSN 1477-9048 E-ISSN 1741-802X https://www.inderscienceonline.com/doi/abs/10.1504/IJBGE.2017.088254#d11348e61 10.1504/IJBGE.2017.088254 |
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This research investigates power relationships in the disclosure on women and gender related issues in corporate sustainability reports. For this purpose fifty two companies from the 2013 Fortune top 100 list were selected.
Critical discourse analysis (CDA) was conducted on the basis of Fairclough’s (1989) framework. Fairclough suggested analysing the language from three dimensions: text, process and social. Through CDA the notions of power and hegemony were identified and explained with the help of Bourdieu’s cultural capital as suggested by Everett (2004) and Aaken et al. (2012). The research concludes that discourses on women and gender carry the traditional patriarchal notions and reflect traditional ideas about women prevailing in most of the societies. Women were presented as a distressed species and companies tried to
portray themselves as the saviours of women. The findings of this research contribute to the critical accounting literature by highlighting the strategic use of language in relation to gender issues by large global corporations. |
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Power relationships in gender-related disclosures:
exploring language in selected Fortune 500 companies’ sustainability reports |
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Power relationships in gender-related disclosures:
exploring language in selected Fortune 500 companies’ sustainability reports |
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Power relationships in gender-related disclosures:
exploring language in selected Fortune 500 companies’ sustainability reports |
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exploring language in selected Fortune 500 companies’ sustainability reports |
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exploring language in selected Fortune 500 companies’ sustainability reports |
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power relationships in gender-related disclosures:
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