This thesis uses textual analysis to examine how language use by global multinationals in social/environmental reports contributes to maintaining economically-based understandings of corporate responsibility. The findings suggest that such reporting does not just discharge accountability for social/environmental impacts; it also has implications for how these responsibilities are understood and accepted
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Submitted to the School of Communication and Creative Arts of the Faculty of Arts, Deakin University
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Deakin University, Victoria, 2006
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