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Social Franchising : A Bibliometric and Theoretic Review
2019
Author's accepted manuscript. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Promotion Management on 07/03/2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/10496491.2019.1584777. We present a comprehensive review of social franchising literature and an integrated framework highlighting factors and theories driving the concept. Bibliometric and content analysis are used to analyze 111 articles between 2002 and 2018 from ISI Web of Science and Scopus. The following three research streams are identified: motivations for social franchising, how social franchising work, and impact of social franchising. These are integrated into a conceptual fr…
COVID-19 Profit Warnings: Delivering Bad News in a Time of Crisis
2022
Abstract Profit warnings (large negative earnings surprises) are important corporate reporting documents for delivering bad news and a distinctive corporate communication genre. The 2020 COVID-19 exogenous shock provides a unique worldwide crisis context for company disclosure of bad news. The research develops a genre-based typology/analytical framework for assessing COVID-19 profit warnings’ quality comprising: (1) Four profit warning/forecast quality characteristics and (2) Eight profit warning/forecast disclosures. For a sample of 160 profit-warning documents, the research manually analyses their content, culminating in a disclosure quality score/index. The research tests a model of the…