{"title":"Graphs Usage for Impression Management Purposes: The Case of Canadian Oil and Gas Corporations","authors":"Anne Marie Gosselin, Antonello Callimaci","doi":"10.1177/23294906231191729","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This study explores graphical depictions in annual and corporate social responsibility reports. The 10 largest Canadian corporations in the oil and gas industry were selected to focus on graph selectivity, enhancement, and distortions as impression management strategies. The results show evidence of selectivity and enhancement. However, unlike previous studies on graphical distortions, there is no evidence of favorable distortions in graphs. The graphs reported are well depicted and not distorted, indicating that this industry is rather cautious in its reporting. Potential explanations and reasons why this might be the case are offered. This study suggests the concept of “plausible deniability” in the context of graph manipulations.","PeriodicalId":46217,"journal":{"name":"Business and Professional Communication Quarterly","volume":"358 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4000,"publicationDate":"2023-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Business and Professional Communication Quarterly","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23294906231191729","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"COMMUNICATION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This study explores graphical depictions in annual and corporate social responsibility reports. The 10 largest Canadian corporations in the oil and gas industry were selected to focus on graph selectivity, enhancement, and distortions as impression management strategies. The results show evidence of selectivity and enhancement. However, unlike previous studies on graphical distortions, there is no evidence of favorable distortions in graphs. The graphs reported are well depicted and not distorted, indicating that this industry is rather cautious in its reporting. Potential explanations and reasons why this might be the case are offered. This study suggests the concept of “plausible deniability” in the context of graph manipulations.
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Business and Professional Communication Quarterly is the only refereed journal devoted to research that advances the teaching of communication in the workplace. The journal aims to present the many interdisciplinary, international, and organizational perspectives that characterize the field and specifically to publish research that advances knowledge about business and professional communication pedagogy and praxis in both academic and workplace settings, including technical and scientific communication, rhetoric, program design and assessment, the impact of technology, sustainability, global and multicultural issues, nonprofit communication, and best practices. As an interdisciplinary journal, BPCQ welcomes manuscripts that address a variety of theoretical, applied, and practical approaches and topics in the teaching and praxis of business, corporate, organizational, professional, or technical communication, including qualitative and quantitative research on classroom teaching or assessment, case studies of specific classroom techniques, reports on strategies for program development, innovative assignments or methodologies, and reviews of scholarship relevant to business and professional communication pedagogy. BPCQ especially welcomes manuscripts that address the principles of SoTL (scholarship of teaching and learning). BPCQ also publishes articles on a particular theme, for which a call may be announced on the ABC website: http://www.businesscommunication.org. Information on submitting book reviews can be found at http://www.montclair.edu/cwe/bcq
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