Study of Legislative Structure and Operations

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Accounting Profession in Japan; Professional Accounting in Foreign Country Series

https://egrove.olemiss.edu/aicpa_guides/1683/thumbnail.jp

Economic analysis of productivity in the Irish Construction sector

Important strides to enhance productivity in the construction sector have been taken by both industry and Government in recent years. However, a collaborative, sectoral wide strategy to drive further increases in productivity is required, with the coordinated participation of all stakeholders across the full life cycle of a project. This report, commissioned by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (DPER), produced by KPMG and Future Analytics Consulting Ltd. (FAC) and peer reviewed by TU Dublin, aims to understand and address the reasons for low levels of productivity in the Irish construction sector and identify specific recommendations and actions that can be undertaken to address these issues. All research was undertaken in 2019

Accounting Profession in Japan, Second Edition Revised; Professional Accounting in Foreign Country Series

https://egrove.olemiss.edu/aicpa_guides/1684/thumbnail.jp

Review of Global Health Research Initiative : final report

This report presents key findings from the Review of the Global Health Research Initiative (GHRI). It includes analysis and recommendations to enhance the Initiative, in terms of relevance, performance, results, governance, and the partnership model. No other programs within Canada or internationally provide the same opportunities for researchers to build the global health research area across many different facets (knowledge creation, capacity building, knowledge translation) and across many different disciplines. The validity of the rationale behind Canada’s Global Health Research Initiative is readily apparent

La contribution économique des cégeps et des centres collégiaux de transfert de technologie

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Accounting Profession in South Korea; Professional Accounting in Foreign Country Series

https://egrove.olemiss.edu/aicpa_guides/1694/thumbnail.jp

Accounting Profession in Hong Kong, Second Edition Revised; Professional Accounting in Foreign Country Series

https://egrove.olemiss.edu/aicpa_guides/1680/thumbnail.jp

Persuasive language of responsible organisation? A critical discourse analysis of corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports of Nigerian oil companies

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate how language (choice) in CSR reports of leading oil companies in Nigeria is used to portray an image of “responsible organisation”. Design/methodology/approach This paper draws insights from communication studies (persuasion theory) and critical discourse analysis (CDA) studies to discursively unpack all those subtle and visible, yet equally invisible, linguistic strategies (micro-level elements): wording (single words), phrases and chains of words (clauses/sentences). These linguistic strategies (micro-level elements) proxy organisational discourses (meso-level elements), which are reflective of wider social practices (macro-level elements). The authors base the investigation on CSR reports of six leading oil companies in Nigeria from 2009 to 2012. Findings The findings of this study reveal that (leading) Nigerian oil companies linguistically use CSR reports to persuasively construct and portray the image of “responsible organisation” in the eyes of wider stakeholders (the communities) despite serious criticism of their corporate (ir) responsibility. Originality/value As opposed to the previous content analysis based studies, this paper contributes to the emerging stream of CDA studies on CSR reporting by providing a finer-grained linguistic analytical schema couched in Fairclough’s (2003) approach to CDA (and persuasion theory). This helps to unravel how persuasive language/discourse of responsible organisation is enacted and reproduced. The authors thus respond to the calls for theoretical plurality in CSR reporting research by introducing persuasion theory from communication studies literature which has hitherto been rarely applied