Speaking of corporate social responsibility

• Main Authors: LIANG, Hao, MARQUIS, Christopher, RENNEBOOG, Luc, SUN, Sunny Li
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2014
• Subjects: Language; Future-Time-Reference; Categories; Culture; Corporate Social Responsibility; Sustainability; Business and Corporate Communications; Corporate Finance
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/5417; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/6416/viewcontent/SSRN_id2403878.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We argue that the language spoken by corporate decision makers influences their firms’ social responsibility and sustainability practices. Linguists suggest that obligatory future-time-reference (FTR) in a language reduces the psychological importance of the future. Prior research has shown that spe...