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Communicating Responsibility In Finance: The Impact Of The ESG Regulatory And Cultural Turn On Investor Communications
Chair(s): Rudi Palmieri (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom)
Respondent(s): Marlies Whitehouse (ZHAW School of Applied Linguistics)
Presenter(s): Sandra Binder-Tietz (University of Leipzig), Ramon Brotzer (University of Zurich), Giulia D'Agostino (Università della Svizzera italiana), Laura Hackl (Vienna University of Economics and Business), Christian P Hoffmann (University of Leipzig), Alexander V Laskin (Quinnipiac University), Costanza Lucchini (Università della Svizzera italiana), Andrea Rocci (Università della Svizzera italiana), Jens Seiffert-Brockmann (Vienna University of Economics and Business), Nadine Strauß (University of Zurich)
Listed corporations are today confronted with a more sophisticated shareholder base, which includes private and institutional investors who explicitly promote a sustainability agenda. Similarly, the private banking and wealth management sector has in recent years experienced a growing demand for sustainable investments, which led financial institutions to offer (and promote) new ESG-related products and services
Such an increasing insistence on ESG goals within the investment community has been reflected by growing scholarly attention to the way in which listed companies communicate sustainability to their shareholders and the investment community at large (e.g. financial analysts), and to how financial intermediaries (banks, mutual funds) promote financial products and services as “sustainable”.
The main goal of this panel is to bring together an international group of communication scholars to advance the study of ESG-related financial communication from a multi-disciplinary perspective and to stimulate interdisciplinary and cross-border research projects on the topic.
The five presentations composing the panel will examine the impact of the ESG regulatory and cultural turn that emerged in recent years on the ways in which companies and financial institutions communicate to the investment community.
The panel will offer different theoretical and methodological perspectives to the study of ESG financial communications, including qualitative and quantitative content analysis, corpus-based discourse and argumentative analysis, frame analysis, interviews and surveys. Last but not least, the panel will foster a multicultural and international perspective, as it will include studies that focus on the Anglo-Saxon world or on Continental Europe countries, or both.
