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Word Power: The Impact Of Negative Media Coverage On Disciplining Corporate Pollution, Ming Jia, Li Tong,, P. V. Viswanath, Zhe Zhang
Word Power: The Impact Of Negative Media Coverage On Disciplining Corporate Pollution, Ming Jia, Li Tong,, P. V. Viswanath, Zhe Zhang
Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business
Sequences of individual words make up media reports. And sequences of media reports constitute the power of the news media to influence corporate practices. In this paper, we focus on the micro-foundations of news reports to elaborate how an atmosphere of negative news reports following an initial exposure of corporate pollution activity can help stop such activity through their impact on corporate managers. We extend our understanding of the corporate governance effect of news media by considering two new aspects of reports—one, the proportion of words in negative reports relative to the total number of words in all reports; and …