Communicating Corporate Ethics on the World Wide Web: A Discourse Analysis of Selected Company Web Sites

Communicating Corporate Ethics on the World Wide Web: A Discourse Analysis of Selected Company Web Sites Spanning the fields of corporate communication and corporate ethics, this book investigates how companies communicate their ethical stance on their web sites. The study integrates the findings of six case studies, including BellSouth, Lockheed Martin, Ben & Jerry's, McDonald's, Nike and Levi Strauss. This sample offers both typicality and systematic variety, as all of the six companies are in need of presenting themselves as ethical business players but belong to three different ethics paradigms. Despite this variation, their communicative strategies are quite similar regarding content choice, self-presentation, stakeholder address and the hypertextual organization of their messages. Autor: Irene Pollach Wydawnictwo: Peter Lang AG Rok wydania: 2003 Okładka: miękka Liczba stron: 236 Wymiary: 15 x 27.6 x 1.4 cm Ilustracje: figures and tables Język: angielski ISBN: 9783631506950