Esterhuyse, Leane; du Toit, Elda(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2023-09-13)
Companies are often accused of using sustainability disclosures as public relations tools to manage financial and non-financial stakeholders' impressions. The purpose of our study was firstly to determine how comprehensive ...
du Toit, Elda; Esterhuyse, Leana(Inderscience Enterprises Ltd., 2023-08)
We explore narrative styles of 50 standalone sustainability reports for the years 2016 to 2019 published by South African mining companies. Our analyses using computer-aided narrative analysis tools reveal that readability ...
du Toit, Elda; Esterhuyse, Leana(Southern African Accounting Association (SAAA), 2021)
Low readability and narrative tones can be used as impression management tools in corporate communications, especially in environmentally sensitive industries. We conducted computerised textual analysis on the integrated ...
du Toit, Elda; Esterhuyse, Leana(The African Journal of Information and Communication (AJIC), 2021-06-03)
Among the most-read corporate documents are chief executive officers’ (CEOs’) shareholder letters. Using institutional isomorphism as lens, this study examines the extent to which the narrative styles used by South African ...
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to determine whether companies recognised for the quality of their sustainability reporting are also adopting investor relations (IR) best practices for their IR webpages. Quality ...
Esterhuyse, Leana(The Southern African Institute of Management Scientists (SAIMS), 2018)
Recent behavioural research indicate that non-textual cues are relayed during investor and analyst presentations that influences investors’ judgement. The first objective of this study was to investigate to what extent ...
Esterhuyse, Leana(International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences (IISES) and International Society for Academic Studies, 2018)
This paper aims to determine whether natural resources companies have better investor relations practices than companies in other industries, and secondly, whether classification as a natural resources company is a significant ...
Empirical evidence indicates that companies that reduce information asymmetry by
increased voluntary disclosures achieve several benefits, such as lower cost of capital,
improved pricing, and liquidity of their shares. ...
Prior research has found that having better investor relations (IR) practices contributes towards improved share prices, liquidity of shares and analyst following. The main aim of this study was to determine the extent to ...
Prior research has found that having better investor relations (IR) practices contributes towards improved share prices, liquidity of shares and analyst following. The main aim of this study was to determine the extent to ...