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This study looked at CSR reporting in the telecommunications sector in Ghana, using websites as a disclosure medium.
Further analysis reveals that perceived CEO credibility mediates the influence of a CEO's communication style and disclosure medium on investor judgments.
In contrast, when the disclosure medium is Twitter, investors are less willing to invest when the CEO brags about positive firm performance compared to when the CEO is modest.
Additionally, we find that regardless of the disclosure medium, investors are less willing to invest in a firm when the CEO humblebrags about positive firm performance relative to when he brags or is modest.
Consistent with theory, results show that when the disclosure medium is a conference call, investors are less willing to invest when the CEO is modest about positive firm performance compared to when the CEO brags.
This study only looked at CSR communications on the websites of these telecommunications companies and not any other CSR disclosure medium in March and September, 2017 and any CSR initiative beyond this month is not covered.
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Our results also have practical implications for firms and managers developing communication strategies for new disclosure mediums like Twitter.
We examine if investor expectations of two common disclosure mediums (conference calls and Twitter) interact with a CEO's communication style to influence investor judgments.
However, the results of objective data analysis demonstrated that users disclosed greater Verbal Self-Disclosure (medium level of intimacy) when interacting with computer interviewers that displayed high behavioral realism and high self-disclosure.
Using a 2 × 3 × 2 between-subjects experimental design, this research explored the relationship between friend adding (add; no add), levels of self-disclosure (low, medium, high), and sex of the Facebook profile owner (male; female) on feelings of interpersonal liking, future behavioral intentions to interact, and homophily.
Finally, the encrypted and unencrypted linkage variables together with the encryption validation file are sent to the linkage center on a secured portable data medium without disclosure of the encryption key.
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