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Poncini, Gina. "Discourse strategies in multicultural business meetings /." Bern [u.a.] : Lang, 2007. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2896465&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.

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Yang, Wenhui. "A discourse analysis of trade negotiations." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2008. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/861.

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Pearce, Emma Kate. "Scripting globalisation : globalisation discourse in Australian business media /." Title page, synopsis and table of contents only Title page, synopsis and table of contents only, 2002. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09LR/09lrp3592.pdf.

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Gerlach, Neil (Neil Allen) 1963 Carleton University Dissertation Sociology and Anthropology. "'Flexible' social governance; interrogating 1990s business restructuring discourse." Ottawa, 1995.

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Magocha, Keoneng Know. "Evaluation in business discourse / Keoneeng [i.e. Keoneng] K. Magocha." Thesis, North-West University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/4901.

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The aim of the thesis is to explore, from a linguistic perspective, the construction and maintenance of interaction in documents in which directives are conveyed in business communication correspondence, in order to input directly into the pedagogic practice in written business communication. The focus is research into ways of scaffolding relationships in documents for correspondence, an area that represents an important aspect of language use in business communication practice. The data for the study includes letters, memoranda and saving rams in which directives are conveyed written by write

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Salm, Adriane Marie. "A discourse analysis of advertisements in business english textbooks /." Florianópolis, SC, 1999. http://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/81108.

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Dissertação (Mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão.<br>Made available in DSpace on 2012-10-18T23:16:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0Bitstream added on 2016-01-09T02:49:50Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 147375.pdf: 6736498 bytes, checksum: 17d90cc669fa776a14fc7ca5e1e90334 (MD5)

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Koller, Veronika. "Metaphor clusters in business media discourse : a social cognition approach." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2003. http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/26683/.

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Caldwell, Nigel David. "Real purchasing : deference and discourse at work." Thesis, University of Bath, 2001. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.268756.

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Bargiela, Francesca. "The language of business : discourse patterns in British and Italian meetings." Thesis, Nottingham Trent University, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.332655.

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Shen, Lei. "A Discourse Analysis of Chinese Disagreement Management Strategies in Business Negotiation Settings." Diss., Tucson, Arizona : University of Arizona, 2006. http://etd.library.arizona.edu/etd/GetFileServlet?file=file:///data1/pdf/etd/azu%5Fetd%5F1469%5F1%5Fm.pdf&type=application/pdf.

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Stodell, Simone. "What say you? : A Rhetorical Analysis of the Discourse of Business Leaders." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för organisation och entreprenörskap (OE), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-25995.

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Leadership is a broad topic that can be studied from a vast amount of angles and perspectives. The same fact is true for communication. This study combines these two concepts as it directs attention towards discursive analysis of business leaders. With this focus, the purpose is to describe the essence of rhetoric as an essential part of business communication, analyze how business leaders perform leadership through communication and to contribute to further understanding of this subject, by explaining the communication of business leaders through rhetorical analysis. To reach as far as possi

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Kim, Maria. "Discourse variation in American magazine advertisements." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3243779.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Linguistics, 2006.<br>Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Nov. 17, 2008). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-12, Section: A, page: 4528. Advisers: Samuel Obeng; Beverly Hartford.

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Cook, Roger. "Ethics at work : the discourse of business ethics : an investigation into ethical discourse in UK higher education and organisational contexts." Thesis, University of West London, 2014. https://repository.uwl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1102/.

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This thesis aims to make an original contribution to the development of effective ethical discourse at work through the development of a conceptual model which reframes existent philosophical ideas and moral perspectives. Its intention is both to facilitate better personal understanding, and to enable improved moral communication between individuals, workforce communities and organisations. This is needed because the impacts of the banking crisis, and continued incidences of corporate wrongdoing are exposing the weaknesses in managerial capitalism, and provide evidence that the rhetoric of bus

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Chan, Andrew. "Representing culture in organisational discourse : toward a genealogy of subjectivisation." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.264124.

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Van, de Ven Maarten Jeroen. "The discourse dynamics of metaphor in the business decision making of a web development company." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45790607.

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Ismail, Jumiati. "Challenges in international business communication : a study of language, culture and inter-cultural issues in Malaysian-Australian business discourse." University of Western Australia. Graduate School of Education, 2009. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2009.0107.

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This study aims to explore communication deviances and strategies in the negotiation discourse of Malaysian-Australian business encounters, from both a linguistic and nonlinguistic perspective. Specifically, it sees miscommunications/deviances as factors that may hinder the business communication process and prevent the negotiators from achieving their objectives. The study also focuses on strategies, or those discourse skills which promote successful business negotiation. The research method is based on the analysis of discourse generated from initial 'perception' interviews, business meeting

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Borisenko, Elena. "Discourse on Immigration in Swedish Mass Media." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Management and Economics, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-376.

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<p>Mass movement of people over national borders constitutes the major feature of the today's world. Immigration and its implications are widely debated, whereby the term 'immigration', whenever appeared in a text, hardly ever refers to some unambigously defined concept. To deal with the question of immigration is, therefore, to be faced with a variety of definitions and connotations. The thesis constitutes an attempt to understand how the phenomenon of immigration is conceptualized in Swedish mass media debate, and explore the dynamics of the discourse over the last decade. To do so, the stud

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Ndahiro, Alfred. "Theme, Rheme, Given and New in written discourse : evidence from annual business reports." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.366484.

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ZHONG, Xian. "A comparative study of war metaphors in English and Chinese business media discourse." Digital Commons @ Lingnan University, 2017. https://commons.ln.edu.hk/eng_etd/13.

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Journalistic business discourse plays an indispensable role in people’s lives. It serves not only to inform the public about ongoing business activities and economic processes, but also influence the public in their strategic decision-making about investment options. Metaphor is a tool employed to help fulfill the communicative and persuasive functions of the popular business discourse, which is the target of this study. Based on two self-compiled corpora of business news articles in English and Chinese, the study laid particular emphasis on the conceptual metaphor of BUSINESS IS WAR and showe

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Mwagiru, Nyambura. "An inquiry into the nature of effective dialogue and discourse and peacebuilding through leadership." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20476.

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The research study and findings presented in this work underscore the necessity to design and develop effective strategies for inter-paradigm dialogue and discourse for peacebuilding. The study argues that adoption and application of appropriate dialogue strategies impact and engender the nurturing and emergence of a culture of leadership that can foster sustainable peace. Dialogue and discourse processes are considered as being intricately connected to processes of conflict transformation and resolution, and linkages of dialogue, peacebuilding and leadership are mirrored in macro- and micro-

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Allen, Clifford. "The Caring Face of Business? The Discursive Construction of the New Zealand Businesses for Social Responsibility (NZ BSR) Organisation." The University of Waikato, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10289/2614.

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In 2008 the use of the term Business Social Responsibility (BSR) is now seen, in New Zealand at least, as being old fashioned. The field of BSR has been overwhelmed by the terminology of sustainability. In 1998, however, BSR in NZ was a new, exciting, and controversial development. The progression from BSR to sustainability is often presented as natural and inevitable but this thesis argues that BSR and sustainability in New Zealand arose from different roots and most of the key people who became involved in the NZ BSR organisation did so for reasons that were substantially different from the

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Priyadharshini, Esther. "A critical ethnography on the production of the Indian MBA discourse." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.323066.

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Mak, Wei Hsing Jennie. "A comparison of the discourse of cover letters by Hong Kong business writers and model letters by American writers." Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B19882646.

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Edens, Zackary R. "Conversational Dynamics: Decision Making as Discourse." UKnowledge, 2014. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/management_etds/7.

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This dissertation examines decision making as discourse to capture subtle characteristics and processes within top management team discussions and examines their influence on decision outcomes. Additionally, this approach allows for exploration of decision making processes in real time by utilizing audio analysis techniques that can provide a more dynamic and integrative view of conversations and discussions as they relate to the dialogue and debate that goes on within top management teams, as well as providing an alternate pathway of study for top management team and group research, decision

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Rogerson-Revell, P. "Interactive style and power at work : an analysis of discourse in intercultural business meetings." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.543075.

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This study investigates verbal interaction in a series of intercultural management-level meetings in a large international airline corporation based in Hong Kong. It presents an analysis of the interactive style and the underlying interactive strategies of some of the participants in the four meetings, suggesting that variations in the use of such strategies relate to the different impressions speakers create, particularly with regard to influence and control. It was found that despite their overall similarity in structure and function, there seems to be considerable variation in interactive s

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SALGADO, MARIA DAS GRACAS DE SANTANA. "ALL MOUNTAINS ARE BLUE WHEN SEEN FROM A DISTANCE: EMOTION DISCOURSE IN BUSINESS INTERACTION." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2003. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=4485@1.

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COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR<br>Esta tese investiga o discurso da emoção na interação cliente-empresa a partir da análise de cartas de clientes dirigidas a um plano de saúde sob a ótica da teoria da polidez e da antropologia das emoções. Considerando a emoção um construto cultural e uma prática discursiva, este estudo observou que o cumprimento e a quebra de direitos e obrigações dos participantes (cliente e empresa) influencia a expressão da emoção ao mesmo tempo em que aponta aspectos da cultura brasileira na interação burocrática investigada.<br>This t

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SILVA, MARCELO ALMEIDA DE CARVALHO. "WORKER BESPOKE? A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE DISCOURSE OF A BUSINESS MAGAZINE ABOUT COMPETENCES." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2014. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=23606@1.

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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO<br>COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR<br>PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO<br>O objetivo desta pesquisa é investigar o discurso de uma popular revista de negócios no Brasil – Você S. A. – sobre as competências necessárias para o ingresso, manutenção e ascensão dos indivíduos no mundo corporativo. Para alcançar esse objetivo, foi possível problematizar as relações de poder e de dominação presentes no atual cenário de precarização das relações de trabalho, onde os indivíduos precisam, cada vez mais

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Andersson, Pernilla. "The Responsible Business Person : Studies of business education for sustainability." Doctoral thesis, Södertörns högskola, Miljövetenskap, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-29400.

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Calls for the inclusion of sustainable development in the business curriculum have increased significantly in the wake of the financial crisis and increased concerns around climate change. This has led to the appearance of new initiatives and the development of new teaching approaches. This thesis explores business education at the upper secondary school level in Sweden following the inclusion of the concept of sustainable development in the curriculum. Drawing on poststructuralist discourse theory, the overarching purpose is to identify the roles of a responsible business person that are arti

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Atif, Muhammad. "A communicative approach to responsability discourse in business : from societal to corporate and individual levels." Phd thesis, Université Paris Dauphine - Paris IX, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00933363.

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I position my doctoral thesis in the broad field of organization science; it stands within the domains of business ethics, sustainability, and corporate responsibility. I appreciate the emergence of a globalized world whereby countries, people, and businesses are connected to each other through economic, political, social, and technological ties. The globalized economies and societies pose complex and multifaceted challenges. To cope with these challenges, businesses will have to assume newer responsibilities and roles. These responsibilities originate from the evolving societal expectations a

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Yli-Jokipii, Hilkka. "Requests in professional discourse : a cross-cultural study of British, American and Finnish business writing /." Helsinki : Suomalainen tiedeakatemia, 1994. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37146586q.

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Seiler, Christian [Verfasser], and Christian [Akademischer Betreuer] Heumann. "Nonresponse in business tendency surveys : theoretical discourse and empirical evidence / Christian Seiler. Betreuer: Christian Heumann." München : Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 2013. http://d-nb.info/1041584636/34.

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Hawkes-Frost, Caitlin. "Pimps, Predators and Business Managers: Constructing the 'Procurer' in Ontario Courts." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/30389.

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The concept of the ‘procurer’ comes from section 212 of Canada’s Criminal Code, which prohibits directing, enticing, assisting or profiting off the prostitution of another person. A contentious debate surrounds Canada’s prostitution laws, with a constitutional challenge currently before the Supreme Court. Within this climate of debate, the concept of the ‘procurer’ has moved out of the strictly legal sphere and into a broader discourse, with a range of parties laying their claims to truth on the “realities” of the industry generally and on the procurer specifically. Using a methodology of Fou

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Manteaw, Bob Offei. "Education for sustainable development an emergent discourse for multi-sector learning and action partnership /." Online access for everyone, 2008. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Dissertations/Spring2008/B_Manteaw_013008.pdf.

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Massey, Joseph Eric 1964. "Maintaining legitimacy through public organizational discourse: Crisis and communication in the United States airline industry." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/282482.

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Organizations are beginning to realize the importance of consistent communication with their constituencies. Several organizations have experienced negative consequences for producing inconsistent messages to their publics. This dissertation provides an investigation of the effects of message consistency on perceptions of organizational legitimacy. Legitimacy is the perception that an organization is good and has a right to continue operations. Legitimacy is viewed as an important variable in the study of organizations, since organizations that are not perceived as being legitimate face intern

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MORRIS, ROBERTS ELAINE. "WHOSE BOOKS GET PUBLISHED?: INDIVIDUAL AGENCY AND THE BUSINESS OF CHILDREN'S PUBLISHING." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1141318786.

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Ferns, Jan George. "Organizing nature as business : discursive struggles, the global ecological crisis, and a social-symbolic deadlock." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/25847.

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Despite looming ecological disaster, a persistent state of insufficient action seems commonplace amongst most organizations. This thesis critically explores how this impasse is constituted by discursive struggles surrounding the global ecological crisis. These struggles are situated within the context of global environmental governance – a power arena that has, over the past 25 years, become a defining battleground regarding environmental sustainability. Here, discourses of the ecological crisis are constituted by political contests amongst, most notably, multinational corporations, civil soci

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Zotzmann, Karin. "Educating for the future : a critical discourse analysis of the academic field of intercultural business communication." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2007. http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/26887/.

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The present investigation analyzes critically the discursive and generic make-up, the conceptual base and educational goals of a new interdisciplinary academic field of enquiry called Intercultural Business Communication as it is pursued in the context of the Germany higher education system. Its purpose is twofold: Firstly, it attempts to bring to light and debate the actual validity claims made by these authors in respect to socio-economic changes and the educational promise of intercultural understanding through intercultural training. Secondly, it shows how aspects of context (e.g. interdis

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MIRANDA, SANDRA MARA SANTA BARBA. "IS SECRECY STILL THE SOUL OF BUSINESS?: A DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE SERVICES' HOME PAGES." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2006. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=9569@1.

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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO<br>Os serviços nacionais de inteligência são instituições que, tradicionalmente, têm se fechado ao escrutínio público e cujas atividades são cercadas por certo mistério. Este trabalho investiga a página inicial (home page) na internet de três serviços nacionais de inteligência: o turco, o italiano e o australiano. A análise das páginas discute o discurso institucional dos serviços em duas esferas: a verbal e a visual. A análise verbal focaliza a declaração de missão/lema dessas instituições e a análise visual contempla as imagens e o lay

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Syeddah, Arzoo Fatima. "A dialectical discourse on responsible business behaviour within small medium enterprises : a case study of Pakistan." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/9598.

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This thesis investigates the dialectical nature of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) phenomenon a common buzzword in today’s globalized economy. The emergence of CSR as a significant issue in recent years can be attributed to the expectation in developed countries for business to engage with society beyond their commercial interests. Business are now under sustained pressure to be held publicly accountable for their activities. The research shed light on two research gaps identified within business ethics- idea of business responsibility firstly in the context of the big economic players o

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Kambites, Carol J. "From global discourse to local action? : town councils and sustainable development." Thesis, University of Gloucestershire, 2004. http://eprints.glos.ac.uk/3116/.

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Sustainable development is generally accepted as a policy imperative. However, it can be interpreted in very different ways and is perhaps best regarded as a discourse rather than as a precisely defined term. It is also generally accepted that `sustainable development' requires actions at all spatial scales and by all levels of government, including the local. However, parish and town councils, which are the most local level of local government in rural England, are given no responsibilities in relation to sustainability. This thesis is intended to investigate the potential of parish and town

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Tang, Wai Kuen Connie. "An analysis of the genre of a standard listing documentation of a multinational accounting firm in Hong Kong." HKBU Institutional Repository, 1997. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/112.

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Lazidou, Domna. "Exploring cultural influences on employee interpretations of universal values messages in multinational organisations : a business discourse approach." Thesis, Cranfield University, 2010. http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/5718.

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This thesis focuses on an increasingly popular, but little studied organisational communication practice, the deployment of corporate values messages as a means of ‘framing’ reality, and of achieving ‘shared meaning’ in multicultural workplaces, and asks if such practices, based on ethnocentric approaches to business communication, are likely to be effective in culturally diverse contexts. Using a business discourse perspective, and approaching culture as dynamic systems of meaning, the study presents a rich case of values communication in a European multinational, by exploring in detail the m

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Kruger, Dawn Marie. "An Inquiry into Discourse Choices as Indicators of Gender Attitudes in a Non-Profit Conservative Christian Business." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2005. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2528.

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This paper is an inquiry into the discourse styles of men and women who work together in a conservative Protestant Christian business. Many conservative Protestant Christian churches teach that the Bible forbids women from holding positions of authority over men. Yet in the communications department of this particular business, women fill the top three management positions, supervising a mixed-gender staff of 15. Research has shown that men and women subconsciously use language markers that indicate personal attitudes toward the same and the opposite genders. This research project draws on tha

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Lauriks, Sanne. "Multilingual repertoires and strategic rapport management: a comparative study of South African and Dutch small business discourse." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013162.

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In this era of globalisation and the consequent increase in social, economic and physical mobility, small businesses are transforming into sites of increasing language contact (Harris and Bargiela-Chiappini 2003). This study explores situated language practices within two small multilingual businesses. The first is a bicycle rental and repair shop located in Amsterdam (the Netherlands), which is a city with a dynamic multilingual society. The second is a tyre fitment centre in Grahamstown (South Africa), which is a city characterised by a stable triglossia of English, Xhosa and Afrikaans. Usin

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Bedford, Sarah. "A critical examination of race in Business English coursebooks." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8071.

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This thesis examines ways in which uses of images and words contribute towards constructions of race in published Business English language coursebooks, by exploring coursebook writers’ perspectives on compiling their Business English coursebooks and analysing Business English coursebook materials. The study drew on critical race theory, critical discourse analysis, and systemic functional linguistics to investigate relations between the ways coursebook writers construct race in selecting and organising materials for their Business English coursebooks and the ways race is constructed in Busine

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Valeiras, Jurado Julia. "A multimodal apprach to persuasion in oral presentations: The case of conference presentations, research dissemination talks and product pitches." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Jaume I, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/404052.

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Esta tesis presenta un estudio multimodal y etnográfico del uso de estrategias persuasivas en tres géneros orales: presentaciones en conferencias, charlas de divulgación científica, y presentaciones de productos. Estos géneros comparten un importante componente persuasivo: los tres se dirigen a una audiencia tratando de convencerles del valor de un producto, servicio, o investigación. Sin embargo, se usan en dos contextos profesionales diferentes: el académico y el económico, por lo que cabe esperar que consigan su propósito comunicativo de forma diferente. Por otra parte, recientes estudios m

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Quaife, Peter. "Linkages between ecocentric values and action in expert discourse: the case of genetically modified food in the UK." Thesis, Aston University, 1999. http://publications.aston.ac.uk/10728/.

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Attitudes towards the environment can be manifest in two broad categories, namely anthropocentric and ecocentric. The former regards nature as of value only insofar as it is useful to humanity, whereas the latter assigns intrinsic value to natural entities. Industrial society can be characterised as being dominated by anthropocentrism, which leads to the assumption that a majority of people hold anthropocentric values. However, research shows the most widely held values are ecocentric, which implies that many people's actions are at variance with their values. Furthermore, policy relating to e

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Tregidga, Helen, and n/a. "Power and politics of organisational sustainable development : an analysis of organisational reporting discourse." University of Otago. Department of Accountancy and Business Law, 2007. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20071219.160116.

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This research begins and ends with a concern for the environment, in particular with unease about current constitutions of the organisation/environment relationship. This thesis explores the discourse of organisational sustainable development examining organisational representations of sustainable development and 'sustainable organisations'. How a group of New Zealand organisations have come to (re)present sustainable development and how they have come to (re)present themselves in relation to sustainable development within a set of reports is analysed. The analysis aims to problematise the dis

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Zint, Andrew Robert. "A critical discourse analysis of negotiations between business and Aboriginal peoples : implications for strategic management of crosscultural knowledge." Thesis, Curtin University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/714.

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The concept and use of knowledge in business studies is predominantly determined by a Western interpretation, with strategic management theory and practice positioning knowledge as a key factor in the creation of competitive advantage. The thesis examines Western and Aboriginal ways of knowing, and explores the presuppositions of knowledge in Western culture.Utilising critical theory the thesis has researched and penetrated the cultural interface between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people during business negotiations. The research is a first order interpretation by a non-Aboriginal researche

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Granados, Claudia. "The discourse of sustainable development : business groups, local government and NGOs in Juarez (Mexico) and El Paso (USA)." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2004. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1933/.

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The thesis proposes and develops a threefold categorisation as a framework for the analysis of the sustainable development (SD) discourse of business groups, local government and NGOs in the Mexico-US border region and specifically in the border cities of Juarez (Chihuahua, Mexico) and El Paso (Texas, US). The SD categorisation proposed in this thesis consists of three schools of thought, namely, Ecologism, Ecologically-sustainable-Development (EsD) and Corporate-Environmentalism. The thesis investigates how and why Corporate- Environmentalism came to dominate sustainable development discourse

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