The voice of Australian chairman

This paper uses textual and statistical analysis to examine the tone and diction of Chairmen's Reports of Australia's Top 100 listed companies. A pattern emerges from the analyses. The diction of chairmen is wordy and repetitive, narrow and technical; the tone is stale and shopworn, struck...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Brown, Alistair, Astami, E.
Format: Journal Article
Published: The Center for Accounting and Management Development, Faculty of Economics University of Technology "Yogyakarta" 2006
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/6404